Divan of Shafi’i and the Evaluation of The State of Hadith Culture

Muhammad b. Idris al-Shafi'i , (d. 204/819). Who known for his scientific, religious, primitive, hadith, linguistic also he is a good poet. We learn his poetry, from especially his “Divan.” In his “Divan”, which has an important literary work, many subjects are mentioned 106 Yakın Doğu U�niversitesi I�slam Tetkikleri Merkezi Dergisiin terms of both Islamic sciences and social life. Shafi'i expressed his admiration for the hadith in his “Divan” work: “When you see a man from the living with hadith,You're going to see one of com-panions from the Prophet Holy Muhammad. May Allah bless them. Because they have kept us the origin of religion.They gain advanta-ge over us with these features.” After expressing his feelings in this respect with these expressions, he continued with poems with the same feelings. In Shafii's poetry there are two main foundations of science, those are Qur'an and Sunnah. The others is an empty work but he expressed with in a literary style. As a matter of fact, this issue has been mentioned by Prophet Holy Muhammad in many hadiths. In addition, in many of the other poems in the “Divan” of Imam al-Shafi'i, we are witnessing hadith traces. For example, in a hadith of Prophet Holy Muhammad, Someone who says, “Show me the way to gain the love of God and people.” and he said: “Be an devotee to the world, God will love you and be a devotee against the people, people will love you.” Imam al-Shafi'i, in the sense of the ha-dith culture and he has writte poems related asceticism and piety. In this work, we will focus on these and similar poems reflecting the hadiths, as the view of Imam al-Shafi'i especially in the “Divan.” The hadiths that we will deal with, by identifying their place in ha-dith sources, we also will analyze them in terms of text and sened.