Iraqi historian Bashar Maarouf: Al -Bukhari between the modernists is similar to Abu Bakr among the Companions

Aljazeera - 06/04
The Iraqi historian Bashar Maarouf says that the Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, did not forbid his hadiths, and that the science of hadith was written in the first century AH and then began to classify it, that is, its collection and sorting, in the second century.

The Iraqi historian Bashar Maarouf says that the Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, did not forbid his hadiths, and that the science of hadith was written in the first century AH and then began to classify it, that is, its collection and sorting, in the second century.

During the 6/4/25/6 episode of the "Interview" program, Maarouf talked about his study of history and his work with the science of investigation and hadith and the criticism he developed for heritage books and hadiths.

Maarouf was born in the city of Adhamiya in 1940 to a family famous for science and a father who was a famous lawyer, and graduated in the Department of History from the University of Baghdad in 1946.

He obtained a master’s degree in Islamic history and assumed the presidency of Saddam University for Islamic Sciences between 1989-1992, which supervised its founding and setting its curricula, but quickly closed after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.

According to Marouf, hi...
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