A Study On Hadiths About Backgammon

Abstract

Backgammon, which is accepted that its history go as far as to 3000 B.C., is expressed with the word of an-nard in Arabic. This word was transmitted from Persian language to Arabic language. In this study we evaluated narrations which were narrated connected with backgammon in hadith literature from the point of view of the traditional Hadith Methodology. For this reason, firstly having gathered together hadiths connected with the subject we tried to determine the materials that we possess. After this, having classified this hadiths according to order death of its compilers we searched its development in historical process. We can say that it is possible to summarize our conclusions which we have reached it at the end of our study: Two different variants of this hadiths that were narrated concerned with the subject were reported from two companions and it is seen that number of narrators are increasing after the generation of the successor (tâbiîn) and none of this narrations are according with the definition of the sound hadith.

Keywords

• Backgammon, narrator, trustworthy, weak, sound hadith.

Tavla İle İlgili Rivayetlerin Değerlendirilmesi

Abstract

M.Ö. 3000 yılına kadar tarihi bir geçmişi olan tavla oyunu, Farisî’lerden Araplara geçmiştir. Değişik oyun şekilleri vardır. Bu makalede biz, konuyla alakalı olarak rivayet edilen haberlerin sıhhatini sened ve metin açısından inceleyerek hadisler hakkında usul-i hadis açısından değerlendirmeye çalışacağız

Keywords

• Tavla, hadis, ravi, sahabe.