JOURNAL OF SAKARYA UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF THEOLOGY (SAUIFD), cilt.25, sa.47, ss.153-181, 2023 (ESCI)
Ehli Sünnet kelâm geleneğinde geliştirilen âdet teorisi, nedenselliği iptal edip âlemdeki tüm tasarrufu Allah Teâlâ’ya mahsus kılmayı amaçlayan bir teoridir. Bu teoriye göre Allah, âdetullah olarak isimlendirilen, kendi belirlediği yasalara göre evreni işletir. Ancak Allah’ın eğer dilerse insanî açıdan olağanüstü olarak nitelenen, âdeti dışı tasarruflarda da bulunabileceğine imkân sağlar. Kelâmdan istimdat eden fıkıh ve usûlünün, zahiri esas almaları beklenen ilimler olduklarından, âdet teorisinin imkânlarından yararlanmaları onların bu kimliğine aykırı gibi görünmektedir. Ancak namaz vaktinin son anında Müslüman olan kişinin durumu gibi konularda bazen işler öyle sıkışır ki zahire göre hüküm vermek oldukça zor hale gelir. Peki, usûlcüler zahire bakıp bu kişinin mezkûr vaktin namazı ile mükellef olmadığına mı hükmetmiş yoksa âdet teorisinin imkânlarından yararlanıp farklı bir sonuca mı varmıştır? İşte bu çalışmada kelâmda üretilmiş bir teori olarak âdet nazariyesinin, fıkıh ve usûlünde ne derece kullanıldığı, namaz vaktinin son anında Müslüman olan kişinin durumu özelinde Pezdevî (ö. 1089) ve şârihleri Siğnâkî (ö. 1314) ve Buhârî’nin (ö. 1330) usûle dair eserleri üzerinden tespit edilmeye çalışılacaktır. Bulgular doğrultusunda usûlcülerin âdet teorisinden, kurdukları halefiyyet sisteminin bir gereği olarak ereksel bir biçimde yararlandıkları ancak bunu vakıaya yansıtmadıkları tespit edilmiştir. Usûlcülerin âdet teorisinden sadece bu açıdan yararlanmaları fıkıh ve usûlünün zahire göre hüküm verme kimliğine engel teşkil etmiyor gibi görünmektedir.
Every science examines the personal accidents of the
subject, which it determines as its subject, and the sciences differ from each
other in this aspect. However, sciences offer the principles that they prove
themselves through the use of other sciences. Sciences take and use the
principles of other sciences that they will need, but they do not have to prove
these principles in themselves. On the contrary, they entrust this proof to the
sciences from which they took their principles. While examining the sources of
fiqh and the method of making judgments from these sources, the method of fiqh
uses the principles set forth in other sciences in the problems it encounters.
One of the sciences in which the method of fiqh takes principles is kalām.
Actually, the science of kalām provides principles to all other sciences with
the conception of God and the world it reveals. One of these principles is the
indeterminist understanding of the world, in other words, the theory of ʽādah
(custom). The theory of custom, produced in the tradition of Ahl al-Sunnah
Kalām, is a theory that cancels causality and makes all effects in the world
peculiar to Allah. According to this theory, Allah operates the universe
according to the laws of physics, which are named custom. However, this theory
makes it possible for Allah, if He wills, to do extraordinary acts that are
described as humanly extraordinary. Since the Fiqh and its Methodology, which
is assisted by the science of kalām, is a science that is expected to judge
according to the apparent, it seems to be contrary to his identity to make
judgments by using the possibilities of the theory of custom. However, like the
situation of a person who becomes a Muslim at the last moment of prayer,
sometimes things get so tight that it becomes very difficult to judge according
to outward appearance. Well, did the methodists look at the outward appearance
and decide that this person is not responsible for the prayer of the
aforementioned time, or did they come to a different conclusion by using the
possibilities of the theory of custom. This stud will try to determine to what
extent the theory of custom, as a theory produced in the tradition of Ahl
al-Sunnah Kalām, is used in Fiqh and its Method in terms of the situation of
the person who became a Muslim at the last moment of prayer, through the work
of Fakhr al-Islām al-Pazdavī (d. 1089) on fiqh method named Kanz al-Wusūl ilā
Ma‘rifat al-Usūl and his commentators Siġnākī’s (d. 1314) work named al-Kāfī
Sharh al-Pazdavī and Abdulaziz al-Bukharī’s (d.1330) work named Kashf al-Asrār
‘an Usūl Fakhr al-Islām al-Pazdavī by using the understanding-interpretation
method. This study is important in terms of understanding the details of the
relationship between kalām-fiqh and its methodology. Actually, in classical
works, a general portrait is drawn about the aspect of the method of fiqh to
get help from the science of kalām, and it is mentioned that the arguments used
in the science of methodology depend on the existence of Allah and the proof of
the Prophet’s accuracy. However, it is not mentioned in detail that other
principles set forth in the science of kalām can also be used. In this context,
our study is important in terms of dealing with the relation of fiqh and its
methodology with kalām, as a theory of custom, in particular. Thus, it will be
possible to determine to what extent the general expressions in classical works
are applied in detail, specific to the direction we are examining. In addition,
our study is of great importance in terms of determining whether the use of
this theory in the context of the above contradictory situation causes a
problem in terms of the identity of judging according to appearance. In the direction
of the findings, it has been determined that the Methodists benefited from the
theory of custom as a requirement of the "khalafiyyah" system, which
they established, but they did not reflect this tasthe reality. We can call
this behavior purposeful sense because the khalef comes to the fore in the
absence of the original together with the possibility of the original. It can
be understood from the fact that the methodologists, who obtained this
possibility from the theory of custom, did not believe that the situation was
like this and that they concluded that the decree of khalef was immediately
valid. In addition, it seems that the fact that they make use of the theory of
custom in a purposeful sense and do not reflect this on reality does not seem to
harm the identity of judging according to the outward appearance of fiqh and
its methodology.