Al-Qāḍī ʻIyāḍ and His Method in Studying the Noble Hadith: “A Book with Bughyah Al-Ra’id Lima Tadammanahu Hadith Ummi Zar’ min al-Fawa’id The Pioneer Endeavour for Benefits in Ummi Zar’s Report”: As an Example
Al-Qāḍī ʻIyāḍ’s explanation of the hadith of Ummi Zara’ is considered one of the most authentic explanations and was approved by the early and later scholars. The aim of this research is to clarify the method employed by Al-Qāḍī ʻIyāḍ in the study of the noble hadith through his explanation “Bughyah al-Ra’id Lima Tadammanahu Hadith Ummi Zar’ min al-Fawa’id”. The researcher relied on the inductive approach in introducing Al-Qāḍī ʻIyāḍ and his efforts in this explanation, and the analytical approach in order to highlight Al-Qāḍī ʻIyāḍ’s innovative methodology, which distinguished this explanation from others. The research concluded that Al-Qāḍī ʻIyāḍ established the rules of a new approach in dealing with the religious text, based on comprehensiveness and integration, which explains his extraction of a huge number of jurisprudential and Arabic issues, with unique investigations and wonderful references.