Re-Appraisal of Ghāmidī’s Concept of Sunna and Hadith
Abstract
This study deals with the Ghāmidī’s concept of Suana and Hadith, a comprehensive study of the importance of hadith in Islamic Scholarship, and a chronological study of the primary source of the principles of hadith as well as a brief biography and thoughts of Jāved Ahmad Ghāmidī. It is revealed that Jāved Ahmad Ghāmidī has an unorthodox approach to the principles of hadith as he limited the Prophetic hadith into two types. However, his division of Ahādith has not any precedent in the early books of Usūl al-Hadith. Moreover, the study deals with his definition of Sunna and hadith. It concluded that Ghāmidī followed an orientalist approach in the division and defining of the mentioned terms. None of the Muhaddithūn and authorities in the Science of hadith divided the Prophetic hadith into those types, nor they defined both terms as he did in his works. Besides, the study contained a detailed analysis of his conditions for the Sunna, which proved that Ghāmidī violated his principles in listing Ādhān to the newborn child among the twenty-seven fundamental practices of Islam
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These are: Prayer (al-Ṣalāt), al-Zakāt and Ṣadaqah al-Fiṭr, Fasting and retreat, Hajj and ‘Umrah, Sacrifice in Eid al- Aḍḥā and Takbīr al-Tashrīq.
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