A critical analysis of the Modernists and the ... - Kalamullah.Com

The
of
The prophecy of Allah's Messenger r materialized
when a dangerous precedence was set after the era of the
righteous Salaf. Ahlul-Kalaam as well as some scholars
of Fiqh and Usool deduced certain rules and in their
extremism subjected the hadeeth to these rules such that
if the hadeeth were in accordance with these rules, they
were accepted; and if they were contrary to these rules,
the Ahadeeth were not followed. So they effectively
reversed the affair, and the hadeeth becomes subject to
these deduced rules, instead of it being the judge and
criterion. [See, The Hadeeth is Proof in itself by Shaikh
al-Albani] Rules for example: 'matters of Aqeedah are
not taken from Aahad hadeeth' and 'hadeeth that add a
rule to the Qur'aan are not accepted!'
Those who followed this misguided way built
upon it until certain groups rejected Hadeeth outright
and questioned its authority. Their motivations were the
same as the Ahlul-Kalaam before them i.e., to sideline
the hadeeth and clear the path for opinions,
philosophies and conjecture in the Deen.
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