Dating Asnad of Abrogating and Abrogated Narrations in the Qur’an

The issue of abrogation (naskh) in the Qur'an is a knowledge that has long been considered by Muslim scholars in various Islamic sciences, so that different and sometimes contradictory views have been expressed about it. Since the narrations (hadiths) are the origin of most different opinions on abrogation, this research examines the historical validity of Asnad of the narrations. Accordingly, collecting the narrations that indicate the abrogation of a Qur’anic verse and using the method of dating hadith based on the common link, it analyzed the Asnad of these narrations to answer the main question of research that “when, where, and by whom were these narrations spread?” The result shows that Qatāda, Suddī, Ḥussein b. Wāqid, Ḥajjāj bin Muhammad, and Abū Sāliḥ are among the key figures of naskh who are remarked as the origin of the spread of narrations in the second century AH in Basra and Kūfa.