Abdullah b. Ebî Bekir b. Muhammed’in Muhaddis Kişiliği ve Megāzî Rivayetleri
Abdullah b. Abi Bakr b. Muhammad’s Role as a Muhaddith and His Narrations of Maġhāzī

Summary/Abstract: The life of the Prophet, who is presented in the Qur’an as a good example for human beings, has attracted the attention of Muslims from an early period. It is known that some of the companions kept notes on his sayings, practices and life (sīrat) duirng his lifetime. In line with the developments after his death, the need to refer to his Sunnah continued to grow. In the period after his death, in addition to those who transmitted the Sunnah in oral form, there were also those who recorded it in writing from the generation of the companions (sahāba) and successors (tabi‘īn). This is how the first written texts were created and the Islamic sciences began to form with the classification of these narrations. One of the prominent figures in the scholarly activities of the first centuries of the Hijri period was Abdullah b. Abī Bakr b. Muhammad (d. 135/753), who was born in Madina. The study is limited to Abdullah’s personality as a muhaddith and his maġhāzī narrations. The aim of the study, in which uses the narrative research technique of qualitative research method, is to reveal the place of Abdullah b. Abī Bakr in the science of hadith and his relationship with the science of sīra in the context of maġhāzī narrations. His upbringing in the fields of Hadith, Fiqh, and Maġhāzī was mainly influenced by his family and the city of Madina, which was a center of knowledge and culture. His father, Abi Bakr b. Muhammad (d. 120/738), was distinguished scholar of hadith, fiqh and sīrat. He was a scholar who narrated from hadith authorities such as Abdullah b. Abī Bakr, ʿUrwa b. alZubayr (d. 94/713), and Ibn Shihāb al-Zuhrī (d. 124/742), and was considered trustworthy (siqa) by hadīth critics. The hadiths narrated by Abdullah are mentioned in almost all hadith books. He is also known as the author of maġhāzī. In this context, the authors of al-Kutub al-Tis'a included some of his maġhāzī narrations in their works. His numerous narrations about sīrat and maġhāzī, prepared according to the principles of Hadith methodology, played a significant role in the construction of sīrat studies. Even though no maġhāzī work of his has survived, the maġhāzī narrations he collected mainly from the Madina period have taken their place in well-known works of Sîra and history of Islam through his students and narrators. The number of narrations from the Macca period is much smaller than those from the Rashidun and the Umayyads periods. However, some authors, when giving Abdullah’s maġhāzī narrations, didn’t mentioned his name in the isnad, but his disciple Ibn Ishaq.

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