BILIMNAME, cilt.33, sa.1, ss.7-34, 2017 (ESCI)
Ibn Abi Hatim al-Razi (d. 327/938) is one of the most important criticals in the third period of Hijri. The book al-Jarh wa't-ta'dil written by him, is among the largest works of narrators that reached our time. The aforementioned book contains important informations concerning critiques of hadith narrators. In addition to the critique of narrators who lived until the time of Ibn Abi Hatim, the book contains a ciritique of information concerning narrators transmitted by previous hadith and rijal scholars. The aforementioned book gives important informations about narrators in the first three centuries.