A Study on the Hadiths of Mustakimzade's Booklet Titled "binukat Hadith Arbain / Undotted Fourty Prophetic Words

Abstract

Mustakimzade was born in Istanbul in 1131/1719 and died in 1202/1788. His work, as is understood from its title, was consisted of undotted fourty prophetic words (hadiths). This work, as much as we are able to know, is single in the kind of Fourty Hadit (Hadith Arbain) In this work, the author did the hadiths were undotted with care but he was not able to successfull in several example. There are also two invented (maudu) and twelve weak (Daif) hadiths in the work. The work is original because of its uniqueness in respect to the kind.