علم الطبقات اور الطبقات الکبریٰ از امام ابن سعد کا تجزیاتی مطالعہ

The Science of Ṭabaqat and an Analytical Study of Tabaqat by Imam Ibn e S’ad

Abstract

‘llm –ul-Tabaqat’ has a basic importance in the field of’ ‘Ilm-ul-Asma-ur-Rijal’.It categorizes the traditional sciences into the various groups. Through this way it is easy to judge the sequence of narrators of ‘Hadith’. Quran and Hadith also describe the basic groups of companion. This knowledge gradually expanded in various fields and jurists, commentators, reciters, Judges and poets etc. were categorized into groups. Various authors wrote books in each field. Ibn e Saad was the person who wrote the book named ‘Al-Tabaqat-ul-Kubra’ in which he categorized Sahaba, followers of companions and other scholars of Islam according to eras and areas. He wrote brief bibliographies of about 3000 narrator’s lives. He explains Seerat-un-Nabi in very detail. He also writs the complete sequence of narrators. Sometimes, he debates about the narrator’s solidity with various aspects. In some parts of book he describes Sahaba, followers of companions and later scholars together due to which a difficulty occurs in searching and recognizing the narrator .The repetition of some Sahaba’s names is also there due to the groups distribution according to Era and area. In this article the ‘Tabaqat’ of companions, followers of companions and later scholars are described separately to make it easy for understanding.