The lineage of Ibn al-Jawzi and his method in giving weight to the narrations in the book Mirror of Time in the History of Notables

Abstract

Sibt ibn al-Jawzi is considered one of the men of the intellectual movement in the seventh century. As he was a jurist and historian of historical events, he was able to produce many important works, and the book “The Mirror of Time in the Histories of Notables” is considered one of the important historical works. It contains a lot of valuable information.

By tracing the lineage of Ibn al-Jawzi and the narrations he transmitted to us in his book, we found that he was a critical historian, and he was not satisfied with just quoting, but he also practiced criticism and analysis of historical texts, in addition to that, giving preference to one narration over another by using certain verbs, including: “the most famous,” “the most correct,” and others. Of phrases.

In view of the importance of this book, we decided to present this study under the title: The tribe of Ibn al-Jawzi and his critical approach in preponderating the narrations in the book Mirror of Time in the History of Notables.

Due to the large number of these introductions, the results were at a high level of accuracy, and despite the fact that they enjoyed the merit of submitting the results of the predecessors, a number of the latecomers and those who came along who were interested in commenting on heritage books, showed in their research the many oppositions to the imams of criticism, from among the predecessors, so the modern criticism approach He refuses to cling to an abnormal narration, and demands that all other narrations related to a specific incident be collected to complete the picture, and to detect attempts at falsification and falsification of news when a particular source is eccentric. These objections are often made by correcting and correcting what the predecessors have stated.