Abu'l-Ferec Ibn al-Jawzi, who has over 380 works in many different fields such as fiqh, tafsir, hadith, geography, medicine, sermon and morality, was one of the most important Islamic scholars of the sixth century. Ibn al-Jawzi's scientific affirmation in the field of hadith emerges in the foreground especially in the works of Kitab al-Mevzhât and al-Ilel al-Mütenhiye fi'l-Ehâdî al-Vahiye. His book Kitabu’l-Mevzûât involves fabrication hadiths. The book el-Ilelu’l-Mütenâhiye Fi’l-Ehâdîsi’l-Vâhiye compiles the hadiths which are rather weak and with whom adjudication is not possible. The author, in his works, first made a narrative criticism in accordance with the traditional method, and when necessary he found it in a text criticism. Ibn’ul-Cevzî, because of being strict with his critics has been criticised by Islamic scholars. However, the fact that he had been in the text criticism in the sixth century shows that he has scientific knowledge and affirmation. In al-Ilel, some text criticisms applied by the author in evaluating narratives constitute the subject of this article. Although the narrative criticism has been used predominantly in the whole of the work, it has been determined that some of the narratives also made text criticism in the analysis. It has been observed that he did not make textual criticism without following the traditional criticism. It is worth noting that Ibn al-Jawzi had spent some of his narrations in text criticism at a time when the traditional hadith understanding dominated.