منهج الطبري 310هـ وموارده في كتاب الرسل والملوك (اخبار الخلافة الراشدة انموذجاً)

Al Teberi's Method 310 H. and his Sources in Al Rusul we Al Molouk Book ( the Orthodx Caliphate News as a Model)

Abstract

Islamic state history witnessed great scholars that had the gig role in enriching the Islamic library with their scientific writings which included – despite of the long time- various types of sciences in medicine, philosophy, wisdom, logic, and mathematics, as well as the historical writings that their importance springs from the narratives that reflect the dominant social, economic, political and religious situations in different times. Abu Ja’fer Al Teberi ( died 310) was one of those respected scholars, for his book was a historical record containing various knowledge and historical narratives.
Thus, we can hardly find a researcher that did without it, particularly those who dealt with analysis and investigation of beginning of Islam narratives.
Later, the research data were collected after counseling the respected supervisor Prof. Dr. Ayad Al Kheffaji when he guided me and suggested the topic. The data were about the orthodox caliphate duration. Due to the large number of narratives mentioned in Al Teberi’s history in this duration, so, Dr. Ayad Al Kheffaji suggested that I should take the documentary side of Al Teberi narratives, in other words, we should focus on Al Teberi’s method and sources during the orthodox caliphate duration.
In spite of the knowledge spreading in its historical fame the Al Teberi is considered Ikhbari in his writings especially in the record we are about ( history of messengers and kings); nevertheless, we will see the documentation explicitness and implicitness in this study, where we think that it should be divided into an introduction, three chapters, and conclusion.
The first chapter included the brief definition of Al Teberi’s biography and the most remarkable features of his time, where many writings were mentioned in previous studies. Thus, the definition was brief and no more than scientific. The first chapter was divided into several sections. The first section was about the features of Al Teberi’s time. The second section was about Al Teberi’s biography. The third section mentions Al Teberi’s scientific career derived from his scientific journals, his classifications and others. The fourth section tackles his most prominent masters and students.
The second chapter was devoted for studying Al Teberi’s method in discussing the orthodox caliphate news, which in turn divided into several sections. The first section was about knowing the extent of Al Teberi’s method comprehensiveness in tackling the orthodox caliphate; this in turn was divided into several subsections such as his reliance on the rounded method, the documentation in his narratives and its significance, objectivity and subjectivity in his writings, how to build the historical sentence, and othe issues that relate to Al Teberi’s methods.
The third chapter was devoted to study Al Teberi’s sources in the orthodox caliphate news, which in turn was divided into four sections: his sources about caliphate of Abi Bekr, his sources about caliphate of Omar Bin Al Khettab, his sources about caliphate of Othman Bin Affan, and his sources about caliphate of Imam Ali and Al Hassan ( p.b.u.t.).