Master Thesis
Student: Mustafa NajihIbraheem
Supervised by:. Dr.Hussain Sami Abdul-Sahib Sheer Ali
Major: Sharia and Islamic Sciences
Publish Date: 2017
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Studying the behavioral history, examining Islam rise stage, reading the conventional usage phases, following up Al-Fulaniat in the narrations’ texts and chains and researching their concept, rise, consideration, reasons and using, all together enable us to conclude a number of results that the researcher submits in this thesis which is entitled(Al-Fulaniat in the Holy Tradition) as a way to adherence the principle of (recognize rightness to recognize its men, recognize injustice to recognize who had committed it). When some had said(the Companions’ justice), they aimed to legalize all their saying and actions to fulfill their personal or group interests in spite of their contradiction of their saying and actions with each other, on one hand, and with the heavenly instructions, on the other hand, as Imam Al-Sadiqh had said(they did not worship them, yet they legalized the forbidden, and forbidden the legal), with clear offenses to the saying and instruction of the great messenger Mohammed(P.U.H). So, the only resolution was to obscure and confuse the names by saying (so and so), or what is so called in Arabic(Fulan), intentionally or unintentionally, to maintain the actions of the previous and to obligate the followers. They had treated Ali and other members of Ahlul-Bait( P.U.Th) in a way that was different from that with which they treated the other companions. The prophetic heritage had been subjected to a great series of attempts to obscure the names to be neglected and forgotten.
The research concludes a number of results that could be summarized as following:-
1- The word(fulan= so and so) is used to replace the name of the person or the character whom they are talking about; if it was a female it would be (fulanah), it has a historical root as it was used in the Hebrew and Syriac language.
2- Conventionally,(fulan) is used to obscure the characters in the narration texts and chains, intentionally or unintentionally.
3- It had been used in the holy Books, before the holy Qur’an in which it had been used once in Al-Foorqhansura: verse (28).
4- There are different terms that refer to obscureness such as a man , an old man, someone, several persons and others. Moreover there are some practices that are close to obscureness like changing characters, distorting or omitting names, cutting the narration, mentioning the attribute without the attributed, using the participate and so on.
5- In addition there are some hadithi terms that refer to obscureness.
6- Studying Al-Fulaniat has many interests; this research enables to define them to be its targets.
7- The famous books, such as Al-Jami’e Al-Saheeh for Sheikh AlBukharyhad used Al-Fulaniat; it had been mentioned (241) times: (148) times in the narrations; text and (3) times in the chain.
8- The source of Al-Fulaniat could be the narrators, the classifiers and the writers or typists. 9- The researcher was able to recognize a number of Al-Fulaniat with their names concluding that it is good for the evil persons to obscure their names, but it is not so for the good and pure persons.
10-The reasons for using Al-Fulaniat are political, doctrinal, tribal or personal. Also they could be private such as fear, hide the virtues and cover the vices, disdaining, advertisement, forgetting or suspicion.
It is necessary to mention that Al-Fulaniat is one of many ways to distort the holy tradition and hiding facts, so they must be defined and recognized to purify the holy tradition from all falsehood; there are some calls to rewrite history by subjecting it to the conditions of the science of prophetic tradition, and to do so it is necessary to purify the prophetic tradition while there are books still issued to praise the oppressors. Our last prayer is praise be to Allah, the Lord of worlds, prayer and peace be upon the prophet Mohammed and his pure progeny.
