Saturday 28 May 2016

The Concept of Sunnah Transmitted via Amal

The concept of Sunnah via Amal is not something new, rather older than the use of Ahad Hadith as Sunnah :
Notes: Ahad Hadith OR Isolated Hadith is one which is not a mutawatir hadith & a mutawatir Hadith is Hadith that is narrated by such a large number of people that it is impossible that they have invented a lie, & Hadith that can really be called truly Mutawatir are very few as compared to Ahad Hadith, so most Hadith are actually Ahad Hadith. Of the 4 Sunni fiqh Imams, Imam Abu Hanifa (702-767 CE) & Imam Malik’s (717-801 CE) stance towards Ahad/Isolated Hadith was different from Imam Shafi (769-820 CE) & Imam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal (778-855 CE).
Malik’s Concept of Amal in the light of Maliki Legal Theory Dr. Umar Faruq (1978 PHD Dissertation) :
P1 , P2 , P3 , P4 , P5 , P6 , P7 , P8 . Mirror : P1 to P8  .

3 Brief selections from above dissertation.
Imam Abu Hanifa’s Restrictions upon Isolated Hadith , mirror .

Isolated Hadith , mirror .

Umum al-balwa , mirror .

Malik’s letter to Layth & Layth’s letter to Malik , mirror . 

Towards Understanding Hadith youtube lecture series by Hanafi scholar Shaykh Atabek Shukurov
Lecture 1 , Lecture 2 , Lecture 3 , Lecture 4 , Lecture 5 , Lecture 6
More lectures .

Other Sunnah and Hadith Related books
Other Sunnah and Hadith Related books (include: Fundamentals of Hadith Interpretation English Translation of Amin Ahsan Islahi’s Book, Hadith and Sunnah Ideals and Realities, The Evolution of a Hadith PHD document by Iftikhar Zaman, Collection of the Qur’an: A Critical and Historical Study of Al-Farahi’s View)