The Legislative Value of Excellency Prophet’s Actions -Bedruddin al-Maqdisī Example-

Abstract

Both prophet's (pbuh) words and actions have been quite important since he was described as the personality who should be dependant to by all human kind in the book of Allah. The term "Sunnah" has been used for everything related to the Prophet of Allah such as his words, actions and all the things narrated as verdicts. From this perspective, Prophet's actions constitute a kind of sunnah accepted as the secondary basic source of Islam. Therefore, Prophet's actions forming a part of sunnah are one of the fundamentals of legislation. However, in terms of legislative values, all of Prophet's actions have not been evaluated in the same category. As a result of this, the legislative values of actions, in other words whether they are binding or not; or, which ones are binding, have always been the subject of controversy among the Islamic scholars. Not only hadith scholars but also fıqh scholars have been interested in this issue. One of the fıqh scholars is Bedruddîn al-Maqdisî (d. 773/1371). Bedruddîn, is the grandson of Abdulğanî al-Maqdisî (d. 600/1203), known as al-Cemmâlî, and who was a famous hadith scholar. Bedruddîn, who had the prominent names of his era as his teachers, directed his scholarly work to hadith and fiqh and wrote works especially on fiqh method. In this manuscript, after Prophet's approaches related with his actions are presented, how Bedruddîn al-Maqdisî, a Hambeli sect scholar, and who is not much famous, tackled with the issue will be investigated within the context of his work, et-Tezkire fi Usûlî'l-Fıkh, which has reached today.