Al-Rizzo, Hassan Muthaffer. “Employing Mechanisms of 'Fuzzy Logic' in the Evidence of Critics of Hadith Narrators," Year 12, Issue 48 (Spring 1428 AH/ 2007 CE), Pp. 103-132.

Abstract

Hassan al-Rizzo’s article aims to employ the mechanism of “fuzzy logic” in studying the conceptual foundations adopted by the major hadith scholars in dealing with issues of jarḥ wa al-taʿdīl (impugnment and validation) in order to achieve two objectives: 1) to explore the essence of deduced rules and the objective precision that characterize their critical rulings, and 2) paving the way ahead for studies that utilize new mechanisms in the issue of critique of narrators in the science of hadith. The article explores the epistemological pitfalls in the field of the science of hadith, a conceptual engagement with “fuzzy logic,” the convergence between “fuzzy logic” and the logic of critiquing hadith narrators, restructuring the rules of critiquing narrators in accordance with this logic, and providing a description of the “fuzzy logic” model in the process of critiquing narrators.