Methods of the Mujtahid Imams in Removing the Contradiction in the Narrations of Al-Sa’ib bin Juththama - May God Be Pleased with him

Abstract

- The study aims to explore the narrations of the companion: Al-Sa'ib bin Juththama, may God be pleased with him, for what he narrated on behalf of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace. These narrations are three authentic hadiths. The first relates to what he narrated about (the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, giving a zebra as a gift while he was in a state of ihram and he returned it to him). The second addresses what he narrated that (there is no sanctuary except for God and His Messenger). The third refers to what he narrated about (the permissibility of spending the night and raiding the enemy and pardoning the killing of children and women in it). These narrations were reported in different wordings - in which there appear to be many possibilities. The multiplicity of these narrations led to the emergence of diverse opinions, which appear to be contradictory and different, in what Al-Sa'ib himself narrated on the one hand, and in what others narrated on the same topics as well. After research and study, it has become clear that these narrations do not contradict each other: neither in what Al-Sa'ib himself narrated, nor in what others narrated. This was done by examining and combining the texts using a scientific method as followed by the imams of jurists, which collects and composes the narrations. The study has arrived at many results mentioned throughout the research, some of which will be mentioned. It is found that what was mentioned about the reason for the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, rejecting the gift of the Sa'ib was for two reasons together because it is forbidden, and the Sa'ib had singled out the Prophet for this hunt. As for the statement about sanctuary, it has become clear that the sanctuary is only for what is in the public interest and that it is not the revival of abandon land. As for what is specific to what was proven in the overnight and raiding, it was due to the impossibility of separating these weak people from others, and when there was no intention to kill them.