A Research on the Narration That Associated Tashahhud with the Mi'raj

The narration of tashahhud being a conversation between Allah, the Prophet and the angels is quite common among people. This article examines the authenticity of this narration and questions whether it has an informative value. In this context, the research undertaken in Hadith, Siyar, Tafsir and Fiqh sources resulted that the narration was not stated in the hadith books -with sanad (the chain of narrators) or without sanad. The first and only summary version of the script was included in the commentary of Tha'lebi (d. 427/1035), which has very problematic sanads. The first narration without sanad but having a full text (matn) was narrated by Qurtubi (d. 671/1273). It appears that various commentators of hadith, fuqaha. (expert in Islamic jurisprudence), mufassirs (commentators on the Qur'an) and historians followed Tha'labi and Qurtubi by narrating from them. In fact, these group of scholars did not specify a sanad for the narration but they usually used tamrid forms (a form which shows that the hadith is weak or deficient), which suggests that they also did not convinced that the narrarion was makbul (accepted). On the other hand, the fact that this narration did not accompany authentic (sahih) hadiths on the emergence of tashahhud narrated by hadith scholars, such as Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Dawud, Nasai and Ibn Majah, which also indicates another problem with this narration.