The Department of Quranic Sciences and Islamic Education Discusses a Masters Thesis on the Narrations of the Tabii Ata ibn Abi Rabah

The Department of Qur’anic Sciences and Islamic Education at the College of Education for Humanities, University of Samarra, discussed the Master’s thesis entitled:

“The Narrations of the Tabi‘i ‘Ata’ ibn Abi Rabah (d. 115 AH) in the Two Sahihs: A Comparative Jurisprudential Study,” submitted by the student Qais Ibrahim Mohammed.

The thesis examined the narrations of the Tabi‘i ‘Ata’ ibn Abi Rabah found in the Two Sahihs, highlighting his scholarly status and his role in transmitting the Prophetic Sunnah. The study aimed to derive juristic rulings from these narrations through a comparative scientific methodology combining hadith analysis with jurisprudential study.

The researcher adopted a method based on presenting the hadiths, determining their authenticity, analyzing their content, and deducing legal rulings from them. The study also reviewed the opinions of jurists along with their evidences, discussed them critically, and weighed between the differing views according to established scholarly principles.

The researcher explained that the importance of the thesis lies in its integration of hadith and jurisprudential studies, contributing to highlighting the efforts of the Tabi‘un in serving the Prophetic Sunnah, as well as enriching the Islamic academic library with a specialized study on the narrations of ‘Ata’ ibn Abi Rabah in the Two Sahihs.

The thesis concluded with several recommendations, most notably the call for expanding comparative studies on the narrations of the Tabi‘un in the books of Sunnah, giving greater attention to verifying narrations and conducting in-depth jurisprudential analyses, and benefiting from integrative methodologies that combine the sciences of hadith and fiqh in addressing scholarly issues.