Shahab Ahmad’s Hostile-Intellectual Approach towards Ḥadīth Sciences
The article strives to expose the attitude of a western grown Muslim scholar Shahab Ahmad (1966 – 2015 AD) to the 2nd major Islamic source Ḥadīth and its sciences. The question to be answered here is what kind of approach, hostile or supporting, Shahab had towards Ḥadīth sciences? Many critics knock...
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| description | The article strives to expose the attitude of a western grown Muslim scholar Shahab Ahmad (1966 – 2015 AD) to the 2nd major Islamic source Ḥadīth and its sciences. The question to be answered here is what kind of approach, hostile or supporting, Shahab had towards Ḥadīth sciences? Many critics knocked his corpus regarding his modern conceptualization of Islam, but his Ḥadīth sense remained undiscussed yet. This paper encircled all his Ḥadīth treatment while using the analytical research approach. Shahab seems facing a great opposition of Ḥadīth terminology in the way of proving his life-argument of ‘satanic verses’. Shahab put several grave accusations on Muḥaddithīn (the traditionists) just like as “adjusters” and “editors” of chains and “underminers of text”. His excessive usage of deficient and incomplete chains of transmission to prove his argument, his acceptance of omitted chains and declaration of complete chains as ‘fabricated’, his ‘self-assumptions’ in the chains all depict his ill-will. By going through his oeuvre, it becomes apparent that Shahab Ahmad criticized almost the entire process of Ḥadīth Sciences which shows his hostility and less knowledge of Ḥadīth. Being taught in secular institutions of the West, Shahab Ahmad had a hostile attitude towards Ḥadīth sciences. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ed7776c6bdec44ddbeb12e1ae8956c1b2023-01-19T13:55:48ZaraUniversity of HaripurJournal of Islamic and Religious Studies2518-53302519-71182020-12-015211410.36476/JIRS.5:2.12.2020.14251Shahab Ahmad’s Hostile-Intellectual Approach towards Ḥadīth SciencesMuhammad Iqbal Awan0Hafiz Khurshid Ahmad Qadri1M.Phil Islamic Studies, Govt. College University, LahoreAssistant Professor, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Govt. College University, LahoreThe article strives to expose the attitude of a western grown Muslim scholar Shahab Ahmad (1966 – 2015 AD) to the 2nd major Islamic source Ḥadīth and its sciences. The question to be answered here is what kind of approach, hostile or supporting, Shahab had towards Ḥadīth sciences? Many critics knocked his corpus regarding his modern conceptualization of Islam, but his Ḥadīth sense remained undiscussed yet. This paper encircled all his Ḥadīth treatment while using the analytical research approach. Shahab seems facing a great opposition of Ḥadīth terminology in the way of proving his life-argument of ‘satanic verses’. Shahab put several grave accusations on Muḥaddithīn (the traditionists) just like as “adjusters” and “editors” of chains and “underminers of text”. His excessive usage of deficient and incomplete chains of transmission to prove his argument, his acceptance of omitted chains and declaration of complete chains as ‘fabricated’, his ‘self-assumptions’ in the chains all depict his ill-will. By going through his oeuvre, it becomes apparent that Shahab Ahmad criticized almost the entire process of Ḥadīth Sciences which shows his hostility and less knowledge of Ḥadīth. Being taught in secular institutions of the West, Shahab Ahmad had a hostile attitude towards Ḥadīth sciences.http://jirs.uoh.edu.pk/index.php/JIRS/article/view/382ḥadīth methodologywestern thoughtcosmopolitanismmuḥaddithīnisnādincomplete chainriwāyah |
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| title | Shahab Ahmad’s Hostile-Intellectual Approach towards Ḥadīth Sciences |
| title_full | Shahab Ahmad’s Hostile-Intellectual Approach towards Ḥadīth Sciences |
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| title_short | Shahab Ahmad’s Hostile-Intellectual Approach towards Ḥadīth Sciences |
| title_sort | shahab ahmad s hostile intellectual approach towards hadith sciences |
| topic | ḥadīth methodology western thought cosmopolitanism muḥaddithīn isnād incomplete chain riwāyah |
| url | http://jirs.uoh.edu.pk/index.php/JIRS/article/view/382 |
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