HZ. ÖMER’İN OLUŞTURDUĞU DÎVÂNLARIN SAHÂBÎLERLE İLGİLİ BİLGİLERİN TESPİTİNE ETKİSİ
The Influence of the Dīwān of ‘Umar b. Khattāb, the righteous second Caliph, upon Determination of the Information about the Companions

Summary/Abstract: The earliest bibliographical works we have today are those written in the third century of Hijra notwithstanding, it is possible that the earliest documents containing bibliographical information date back to the beginning of the second century and even to the end of the last quarter of the first century of Hijra, at a time when ‘Umar, the righteous second Caliph, ordered the dīwāns to be written. We do not know for sure if the Dīwān of ‘Umar was available to use in the beginnings of the second century, when the traditions started to be compiled systematically. However, the fact that those who have worked in dīwāns as scribers or experts have also related a lot of information about the Companions on one hand, and that those scholars who were specialists in the bibliographical information on the Companions have also worked on the dīwāns on the other, shows that the mentioned persons must have benefited from the information in the dīwāns when they wrote the first biographical dictionaries. When one compares the order of the Dīwān which ’Umar produced and the narrations talking about the amount of the gifts (‘atiyya) with the order of the tabaqāt as well as the ansāb works, they realize that the structure of these works mostly corresponds to that of the Dīwān of‘Umar. Thus, one can say that the Dīwān of ‘Umar influenced the structures as well as the substances of the bibliographical works, which would be written later on.

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