HUMA 1845 Lecture Notes - Lecture 42: Sunnah, Sharia
6 Jan 2018
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The sunna of the prophet is recognized as a source of islamic law. Consequently, hadith narrations that report on the sunna of the. Prophet are of particular importance of the muslim jurists. Acceptance of hadith as a source of islamic law is advocated in the. Qur"an: whatever the messenger gives you, take; and whatever he forbids, abstain from it. (q. The study of hadith became one of the most important islamic disciplines, and centers of hadith scholarship flourished throughout the. In the eighth and ninth centuries ad, a group of prominent hadith scholars formed a movement that was dubbed ahl al-hadith, (alternatively, ashab al-hadith), meaning people of the hadith . Ahl al-hadith insisted on the authority of the hadith narrations attributed to the prophet muhammad, as against the informed. Opinions (ray) on which many contemporary juristic schools based their legal reasoning.
