The Authority of Sunnah

The Authority of Sunnah

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Book Specification

Item Code: NAJ384
Author: Justice Muhammad Taqi Usmani
Publisher: Kitab Bhavan
Language: Arabic Text with English Translation
Edition: 2009
ISBN: 9788171511327
Pages: 126
Cover: Hardcover
Other Details 9 inch X 5.5 inch
Weight 290 gm

Book Description

About the Book

A subject cherished by Muslims all over the world yet Misconstrued, Misargued, Disarrayed specially in - the English language writings written for the general reader interested in an authentically correct presentation of the second source of Islamic Law and love, ‘The Authority of Sunnah’ will take you into the much published year 2000, and beyond basic, simple informative educative, pleasing, authentic and every reassuring; answering doubts, removing cobwebs woven by those oriented by and to Orientalist.

Foreword

In October 1989, I was invited to present a paper on the “Authority of the Sunnah” in an international conference held in Chicago by an international Islamic organisation.

Since long, I felt the need of a brief English booklet containing basic information on “The Sunnah of the Holy Prophet it’s general features, the nature of it’s authority and the standard of it’s authenticity.

I took the opportunity to fulfil this need and wrote on the subject in a little more detail than was required in a conference of this type.

The present work is the result of the above endeavour. This book is meant for the general reader who wants to know what the “Sunnah of the Holy Prophet” is, how does it have a binding authority over all the Muslims for all times to come, what status has the Holy Quran given to it and what measures has the Ummab adopted to preserve it for the coming generations.

I hope that this humble effort will provide brief, yet clear, answers to questions of similar nature and will help understanding the true status of the ‘Sunnah’ as a source of Islamic Law and as a source of guidance for all Muslims in their practical lives. It will also assist, I hope, in removing certain doubts inculcated by few contemporary writers in respect of the authority of the Sunnah.

May Almighty Allah approve of this humble effort, adorne it with His pleasure and make it beneficial to the readers.

Contents

Foreword 3
Chapter 1
Sunnah: the Second Source of Islamic law 5
Definition of Sunnah 6
The status of the Holy Prophet 6
The obedience of the Messenger 9
Ittiba’ (following) of the Prophet 18
Two kinds of revelation 23
The second kind of revelation proved by the Holy Quran 23
The obedience of the Prophet as distinct from the obedience of a ruler 40
Chapter 2
The scope of the Prophetic Authority 45
The Prophet’s Authority to make laws 45
The Holy Prophet’s Authority to interpret the Holy Quran 53
Examples of Prophetic explanations of the Quran 54
Does the Holy Quran need explanation? 59
The time limit of the Prophetic authority 61
The Prophetic Authority in worldly affairs 67
The event of fecundation of the palm-trees 70
Chapter 3
The authenticity of the “Sunnah”: its historical aspect 75
The preservation of Sunnah 78
Three kinds of Ahadith 78
The authenticity of the first two kinds 80
Different ways ofAhadith preservation 83
1 Memorization 83
2 Discussions 89
3 Practice 92
Writing 93
The compilation of Hadith in the days of the Holy Prophet 99
The dictations of the Holy Prophet 99
The book of sadaqah 100
The script copy of Amr b. Hazm 101
Written directives to other Governors 101
Written directives for certain delegations 102
The compilations of Hadith by the companions of the Holy Prophet 105
The scripts of Abu Hurairah 105
The script of Abdullah ibn Amr 106
The script of Anas 107
The script of Ali 107
Scripts of Jabir 109
Scripts of Ibn ‘Abbas 109
The compilation of ahadith in the era after the companions 111
The compilations of the first century 113
The books of hadith written in the second century 115
The criticism of ahadith 118
1 Scrutiny of the narrators 120
2 Constancy of the chain of narrators 123
3 Comparison with other narrations 125
4 General analysis of the tradition 125
Conclusion 126

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