Historiography method of Mohammad ebn Jarir Tabari (the link between history and Hadith)

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This research tries to show the link between Islamic Historiography and narrating Hadith is very deep and tied together. The presence research contains two parts: first it would examine the link between Hadith and History. Then it would proceed a parts of Tabari’s Historiography as a remarkable representation of Hadith Historiography. Generally works of Narrators (Mohadeth) were in two parts: first gather all Hadiths and then in second part analyzed and examined them, until separated good from bad. According to the first part narrators work is a simultaneity task: Narrator must know Hadiths of all sects and movements and gathered them. Then entered to second part and select some of them. Tabari in his history only was faithful to first part and never entered to second one. Now we must with utilizing from criticizing Hadith’s method reread Hadiths of Tabari’s History.

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