A COMMENTARY ON THE POEM AL-BAYQUNIYYAH HARDBOOK

The importance of this subject:
The knowledge of usūl al-hadīth is a science that serves the radiant Prophetic traditions; with it one can distinguish the Prophetic narrations in terms of authenticity and fabrication, soundness and weakness.
Al-Imām ‘Abdullāh ibn al-Mubārak said, “The quality of the hadīth is not in the conciseness of the isnād, rather its quality lies in the soundness of its narrators.”

Al-Hāfiz ibn Qutaybah al-Daynūrī said, “There is no nation amongst the nations with the isnād like their chains (i.e. this nation); narrator from narrator, the trustworthy from the trustworthy in such a way until it reaches the Prophet (salallahu alayhi wa sallam) and his Companions, so that the sound can be differentiated from the weak, the connected from the disconnected and the fabricated from the genuine.”

The Merits of the Poem of al-Bayuni

Shihab al-Din al-Dimyathi said, “The poem of the knowledge imam of understanding and perception, al-Shykh al-Bayquni is one of the most interesting summaries of the science of the Hadith and the most eloquent of the writings upon which on takes rigorous course upon, for it is comprised of clear yet fine expressions that overwhelms its counterparts with a grim face.”