A Survey of Khums Hadiths in Sahih Bukhari

Khums is one of the important issues discussed in the field of hadith, fiqh and the holy Quran. Its incumbency has been proved by the Holy Quran and consensus of Muslims. In spite of unanimity among all Muslim over the fact of its incumbency, there are some disagreements among jurists and leaders of different sects over some of its rulings: such as ownership, ways of its spending and etc. Hadiths transmitted by the Sunni and Shii scholars concerning some canonical rulings are regarded as the source of this disagreement. Views presents by Sunni traditionists and jurists play a remarkable role in discovering the intellectual atmosphere and deducing rulings of religion. The author of this paper raises some questions concerning the place of khums in Bukhari’s Sahih as an important book of the Sunnis as well as Bukhri’s views on the related hadiths and tries to find appropriate answers for them. He classifies hadiths of Sahih into two parts: one chapter covers those in which the word of khums is found explicitly in the title of that chapter and the other one those which implicitly deal with this issue.