Ahmad bin Farah al-Ishbeeli (D. 699/1300) and His Poem Named “Gharaami Saheeh (My Love is True)” an Assesment from the Perspective of the Methodology of Hadith

Abstract

Ibn Farah al-Ishbeeli’s poem named “Gharaami Saheeh (My love is true) about the methodology of Hadith is considered in the history of Islamic sciences as the first poem written in this field. Even though it has comprised short content of 20 couplets only, it has attracted great attention of many scholars that more than 40 commentarial books have been written about it. After this poem, many others have appeared, succeeding each other till current age. Therefore, it is possible for us to say that this field, after him, has been subsequently developed and reached up to a position that great poems comprising thousand couplets, have been written by different scholars like Shihab al-din al-Khuwaiyi, Zayn al-din al-Iraaqi, Jalal al-din Soyuuti and others. Ishbeeli, in this poem, just provided the names of terminologies used in the methodology of Hadith as Saheeh, Hasen, Dha’eef, etc, and made up a beautiful poem whose topic is love.