AN EVALUTION ON IBN HAJAR’S DEFENCE ON BUKHARI’S NARRATORS WHO ACCUSED OF LYING / İBN HACER’İN YALANCILIKLA İTHAM EDİLEN BUHARİ RAVİLERİ SAVUNUSU ÜZERİNE BİR DEĞERLENDİRME

Although Bukhari declared that he only had included authentic hadiths in Sahih al-Bukhari, it is known that many of the narrators of hadith have been criticized. However, Ibn Hajar stood up for the most of the Bukhari's narrators in his book which is called Fathul Bari Sharah Sahih al-Bukhari and it's introduction Hedyu al-Sari. The subject of this article is the Bukhari's narrators who are accused of lying and who are defended by Ibn Hajar in his book Fathul Bari Sharah Sahih al-Bukhari. This article includes both İbn Hajar's methods and arguments that he used on defending these narrators and other critics's opinions about them. These opinions have been discussed with a comparative method. Ibn Hajar's attitude toward these narrators is studied. Also, it was analyzed to find whether any of the narrators were unfairly criticized or not and to detect if there was anyone who is hard to advocate for. The İnvestigation we conducted showed us that eleven narrators of Bukhari were accused of lying. According to many critics, two of these narrators are liars; their hadiths can never be trusted. Ibn Hajar also accepted that these two are liars. Two narrators are accused of lying because of sectarian bigotry, personal enmity of some critic. Another narrator is accused of lying due to name similarity. These three narrators are very trusted by many critics. There is not enough evidence on whether the other narrators are liars too. However, they have flaws such as making mistakes, forgetfulness, confusion, dementia, taking hadiths from untrustworthy or lying narrators. These narrators's stories are not considered authentic according to classic hadith rules. This means there are also weak hadiths in Sahih al-Bukhari.