Re-Appraisal of Ghāmidī’s Concept of Sunna and Hadith

Abstract

Prophetic hadith is a backbone of Muslim civilization and Islamic law. The Muslim scholars paid great attention to its aegis through compilation and explication in every century. Muhaddithūn and Jurists have a different approach to the study of hadith, which is based on the nature of the concern science. Moreover, every Science has different terminologies that introduced in the early ages of Islam. These terminologies have a paramount role in the study of the provenance of hadith and deriving of Islamic provisions from it. Jāved Ahmad Ghāmidī is well-known Scholar of Farāhī-Islāhī School of thought in the subcontinent, who has an unorthodox approach to hadith and its sciences. He endeavored to introduce the nascent division and definition of hadith in his works, which has not any precedent in early related studies.  It is a critical study of the Ghāmidī conception and approach to the Principles of hadith in the light of primary sources in the relevant field with illustrative examples from the canonical books of hadith.