Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
HITIT THEOLOGY JOURNAL, cilt.21, sa.1, ss.605-636, 2022 (ESCI)
The Ottoman Empire is one of the periods that is not emphasized in hadith history books. Among the reasons, the claim that there was no original work in the Ottoman Empire and that most of the works are in manuscript can be mentioned. However, in order to determine whether they are original or not, the contents of the manuscripts should be analyzed first. Thus, ideas can be made in the fields of hadith and hadith education in the Ottoman Empire and a contribution can be made to the history of hadith by revealing its prominent aspects or deficiencies. The subject of the study is Qara Khalil Efendi, one of the 17th-century scholars, and his gloss about the hadith method, which he wrote on Gurani. Qara Khalil Efendi was educated in Ottoman madrasahs and worked as a professor there, and he is from within the Ottoman education. At the same time, he has works written in the style of annotation for different fields. He especially improved himself in fields such as logic, etiquette, and Jihat al-Wahdah. Fanari's gloss is one of his famous works. Both being a disciple and being in copyright activity indicates that he usually writes his works during the training phase. After being a professor, Qara Khalil's transition to bureaucratic duties such as a qadi'asker gives information about the relationship between professorship and bureaucracy in Ottoman thought. Qara Khalil, who has a mudarris, profanity, and bureaucrat personality, is an essential character in terms of the upbringing of the Ottoman'ilmiyya class, his interests and his goals on the way from being a mudarris to being a qad'asker. In this study, giving place to the life of Qara Khalil from these aspects is aimed at understanding the Ottoman 'ilmiyya thought. In addition, it was mentioned that the rank of Boyabadi was given to Qara Khalil, who was from the Aydin region, by mistake. One of the turning points of the hadith method literature is the Nukhba and its commentary Nuzha works of Ibn Hajar. Many glosses, commentaries, and summaries have been made on them. One of the glosses is Gurani, who lived two centuries after Ibn Hajar. Qara Khalil made a second gloss on the Gurani text. The gloss, which is in the form of writing and has not been studied; the transfer of the Egyptian scientific heritage (Nuzhah and Gurani annotations) to the Ottoman Empire is important in terms of the nature of the Ottoman period hadith method writing and the Ottoman understanding of science. The hashiya does not cover all the subjects because it was written up to the subject of mutawatir, which is at the beginning of the hadith methodology. Four texts, Nukhba, Nuzha, Gurani, and Qara Khalil, are intertwined in the gloss. At the same time, there are other commentaries and glosses of Nuzha such as Ibn Qutluboga. In this respect, the work gives an idea about the debates around Nuzha after Ibn Hajar. Discussions consist of topics such as the writing of the Nukhba-Nuzha text, the i'rab status of the words in the text, the purpose of hadith science, and the conditions of mutawatir. Qara Khalil explains the subjects centered on "language" and responds to the discussions about the knowledge of fields such as sarf, nahw, and rhetoric. At this point, he makes use of Nuzha's commentaries, logic and Arabic language work. In these respects, the work gives the impression that it was written to teach students at the educational stage. Explaining each word with grammar aims to teach grammar subjects to students. In addition, indepth explanations are made on the topics based on grammar issues.