خلاصة:
Long hadith texts or 'long hadiths' have been an ancient yet still challenging issue in hadith studies. The long hadiths and reports remaining from the first century face numerous ambiguities. Perhaps the most important among them is how these hadiths were recorded and preserved, and if they were not this long from the beginning of their issuance, how the current text took shape. Perhaps one of the best existing examples is the long narrations of the book of Sulaym ibn Qays al-Hilali, which carries most of these challenges. In this study, to better understand the problem and find a solution, by reviewing the culture of written transmission of narrations in early Islam, we examine the various types and states that led to the creation of long hadiths. By reviewing examples from that era, we see how some traditions of recording and transmitting hadith among early hadith scholars and historians led to the misunderstanding of these long narrations in later generations. Ultimately, we can use the results of this discussion to understand the structure of ancient book texts such as the Book of Sulaym.
ملخص الجهاز:
Keywords: Long hadiths, suspension of chains (ta'liq al-asanid), collection of narrations, composite narrations, Sulaym ibn Qays al-Hilali ● Long hadiths in the written heritage of the first Hijri century/ Mohammad Ghandehari and Ali Rad +++Beginning of the third article+++ __________________________________________________________________________ 1.
After observing these cases, it is now appropriate to ask: besides the composite fabrications of later fabricators or the storytelling of early storytellers (qussas), what other types of long hadiths might be found in the hadith heritage of the first century be found; in evaluating the first long reports, must we necessarily find an author present at the scene of the narration's issuance who records and preserves all the content at that very moment, and if not, should we consider the current text the result of fabrication by fabricators or storytellers (qussas); is choosing one of these two approaches the only way to deal with long hadiths; was there no other mechanism that could have led to the formation of these long narrations?
A) The Pattern of Major Ta'liq (Suspension) Evidence indicates that many hadith scholars of the early Hijri centuries recorded multiple narrations they heard from a single sheikh consecutively and without clear indications of their separation in their notebooks; in such a way that they would only mention his name at the beginning of the first hadith narrated from an early sheikh (for example, a companion or a tabi'i), and would write the subsequent narrations without repeating the chain of transmission and at most by mentioning words like "qala" (he said) or "sami'tuhu" (I heard it).