A Critical Study of Juynboll Approach to al-Mutawātir

This study focuses on the subject of al-mutawātir in G. H. A. Juynboll’s works. He questioned the authenticity of the al-mutawātir term as well as the applied examples of al-mutawātir al-lafzī and al-manawī. It is revealed from a keen follow-up of Juynboll’s claims that his conclusion based on the argumentum e silentio, which is proved feeble because we could not access all written sources of the early ages. Besides, it is concluded that Juynboll did not distinguish among the methodology of muhaddithūn and fuqahā’a in the use of the term al-mutawātir. Furthermore, it is proved from the analysis of Juynboll claims about al-mutawātir al-lafzī and al-manawī that Juynboll neglected the historical facts and the early sources of hadīth like al-‘Jāmi of Ibn Wahab and Mamar b. Rāshid. Likewise, it is concluded from a detailed study of Juynboll’s claims that he did not follow one method in the study of isnāds. Consequently, he called some isnāds Iraqis and Syrians that having one narrator from the mentioned regions.