Ketab-E-Qayyem

Ketab-E-Qayyem

Dating the Hadiths on the Revelation Settings of Verse 43 of Nisa' Chapter in Sunni Sources: A Case Study of the Narratives about the Prophet's Companions' Drinking

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
1 Professor, Department of Quranic Sciences and Hadith, Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran. E-mail: m.shamkhi@scu.ac.ir
2 PhD student, Department of Quranic Sciences and Hadith, Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran. E-mail: s.albooghobysh2016@gmail.com
Abstract
Verse 43 of Surah al-Nisa', due to its jurisprudential ruling on the prohibition of wine, has received special attention from Muslim commentators and scholars. For this verse, various occasions of revelation have been narrated in some Sunni hadith sources through multiple chain of references. The occasion of revelation suggested under this verse indicate that the verse was revealed following an event in which a number of the Prophet's companions, especially Imam Ali (pbuh), drank wine. Given that the content of these texts challenges the infallibility of Imam Ali, the necessity of their analysis and dating becomes clear. Using the combined method of reference analysis and text dating, this study examines the evolution and historical origins of the texts. The data were collected through a library method and evaluated descriptively-analytically. The results of dating based on this method, along with the processing of similar texts and their categorization, the drawing of the reference network, and the identification of main and secondary common links, showed that 'Aṭā' ibn al-Sā'ib is the main common link of such narrations, and the second half of the second century AH can be dated as the time for the formation of this hadith.
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