Assessing Juynboll’s Theory: The Case of Abū Hurayra in The Muwaṭṭa’ of Mālik
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Joseph Schacht (d.1969) argued that the further back the isnÄd of a ḥadÄ«th goes, the more assure we should be of its fabrication and the later date that this fabrication occurred. Furthermore, Gautier Juynboll (d.2010) argued that the more people transmit a ḥadÄ«th from a scholar the more historicity that moment has. For example, if a great amount of people narrated a ḥadÄ«th from a transmitter the more attestation there is that the ḥadÄ«th actually existed at the time. He concludes that this proves this ḥadÄ«th must have been forged at some earlier date. He argues that the surge of AbÅ« Hurayra’s traditions occurs in the period of MÄlik b. Anas (d.179AH/796CE) and that ZuhrÄ« (d.124AH/741CE) or later figures linked with him may have played a rule in the promulgation of AbÅ« Hurayra's reports. This paper will investigate whether there are other reports which corroborate the reports of AbÅ« Hurayra through other isnÄds. This discussion also leads to investigate these reports of AbÅ« Hurayra in the Muwaá¹á¹a’ which stem from MÄlik and ZuhrÄ« specifically.
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