Hazara Islamicus (Jun 2019)
A critical analysis of historical narrations of Mas.ui regarding the creation of universe = ابتدائے عالم سے متعلق تاریخ مسعودی کی روایات کا تنقیدی جائزہ
Abstract
"When the human being think about the universe and its proper functioning ultimately he has a question in his mind about its creation. Again and again he think about himself and focused on his own creation. Although creation of universe and other creatures are realities, therefore a number of philosophers, researchers and historian put their focus on beginning of human life. When historical events become a branch of knowledge, its research started like other subjects. Historian started collection of every event and quote it in their books but they do not keep any yardstick for their truthfulness or otherwise. Therefore every incident become part of history. After the passing away of Hazrat Muhammad (Peace be upon him) a number of people linked their own narrations to holy prophet for propagation as their own thoughts and philosophy. Later on Ulama introduced the Ilm ul Hadith to judge their trueness. Masudi was an historian and collected a number of narrations in history books without their confirmation. Masudi prove himself as an authority in the field of history and his books were used as reference books for others as reference book. It is therefore mandatory to judge the narrations. The present research article discussed the critical analysis of ancient history as explained by Masudi"
