Ebü’l-Hasen el-Kâbisî (ö. 403/1012) ve Kitâbü Mülahhısi’l-Muvatta’ İsimli Eserinin Mukaddimesinde Hadis Usûlü

In the early Islamic world, various works were written on the issues on hadith methodology. Then, independent studies on the hadith methodology began to be compiled from the fourth century of the hijra, and many hadith methodologies were written in the following period. Before the writing of the independent studies on the hadith procedure, there were no separate hadith works, but there were copyrights in which the procedural subjects were handled. It should be noted that the introductory parts of the hadith books, in particular, are of great importance at this point. Because the authors sometimes include the issues of hadith methodology in the introductions in which they deal with the copyright purposes of their works and the methods they follow in the study, and they explain some hadith methodology concepts. The aforementioned prefaces and the issues covered in them provide important content about the hadith methodology. In addition to this, these texts also shed light on the procedural approaches of their authors. In addition, the concepts used in the period when the author lived, the meanings given to these concepts and the issues that came to the fore at that time are also revealed. In this article, the introduction to the book of Kitāb al-Mulakhkhas al-Muwatta' by Qābisī (d. 403/1012), one of the hadith scholars of Maghrib geography, is discussed. The author wrote this work in order to bring together the continual documents in the Ibn al-Qāsim narration of Mālik b. Anas' (d. 179/795) al-Muwatta. In the introduction, the author first stated the purpose of the writing of Kitāb al-Mulakhkhas al-Muwatta''s and the method followed in the work. Namely, he states that he compiled this work to respond to the demands of those who asked him to bring together the hadiths of Mālik b. Anas, whose chain is complete. In the compilation of the work, he was content with the only narration of Muwatta. He followed the method of collecting the musnad hadiths in this narration, the ones with clear continuous. However, he preferred not to include the narrations that were closed in his continuous in his work. After this information, the author has included some issues of hadith methodology in the introduction part. The main purpose of the study is to determine the concepts and subjects of the hadith methodology that he discussed in this section. In this context, firstly, information about Qābisī's life was given, and his education was mentioned. Then, some information about