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The determination of the differences by the comparison of Hadīth books, i.e. the zawāid studies, constitutes the first step of endeavors for gathering all hadīth collections together by purifying from the repetitions. In this study written among the scope of zawāid literature that has lost its outstanding period caught in the 8th and 9th centuries, but regained its vigorousness by today's academic studies, Tirmidhi's Cāmi' has been accepted as the basis and the other five books forming the Kutub al-Sittah have been used as the criterion book. The number of zawāid hadīths existing in Cāmi' but not existing in Sahīhayn and three Sunan is 1280. While the 96% (1231 narratives) of them were marfū' hadīths, 49 narratives (4%) were mawkūf or maktū' hadiths. Tirmidhi has judged on 1084 (i.e. 88%) of the 1231 marfū' narratives and made no evaluations on the 12% of them (147 hadīths). In the table obtained by the tahrīc and reviews, the Tirmidhi zāwaid was particularly formed by the hadīths of garīb (22%), hasen-garīb (22%) and hasen-sahīh (21%). When this situation was compared with the whole Cāmi', the average reliability was less than that of Cāmi'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The problems of definition and classification of prose genres in Turkish folk literature studies are still on going. In general, common classifications are used in present studies. However these classifications always cannot serve the need. We also came across with this problem while doing our field research about saint cult and classifying and analyzing narratives about shrines. As a result we determined three prose narrative genres related with religious personages: hagiography, legend and memorate. In this study criteria for distinguishing aforementioned these three genres will be examined under the titles of heroes being alive, intensity of belief, experience, period and subject of the narrative. It will be examined how these criteria structurally enough to fit to distinguish those genres. From these criteria while the hero being alive and the structure of narrative separate hagiography from the other two, intensity of belief, experience and period provide a basis to distinguish between memorate and legend. Moreover, close relations of these narratives which shares holiness of religious personages in common and their depending features to narrator which gives them to be classified under different genres will also be emphasized in our study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]