Hadith and Sunnah: Ideals and Realities

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CONTENTS

‣ Acknowledgements

‣ About the Contributors

‣ Introduction

‣ PART ONE—Ḥadīth: Origin and Development

‣‣ 1 Ḥadīth—A Subject of Keen Interest (Muḥammad Zubayr Ṣiddīqī)

‣‣ 2 Collection and Preservation of Ḥadīth (Muḥammad ‘Alī)

‣‣ 3 Isnād and Its Significance (Muḥammad Muṣṭafā A‘ẓamī)

‣‣ 4 The Sciences and Critique of Ḥadīth (‘Ulūm al-Ḥadīth) (Muḥammad Zubayr Ṣiddīqī)

‣‣ 5 The Sunnah—Its Development and Revision (S. M. Yusuf)

‣ PART TWO—The Place of Ḥadīth and Sunnah in Islam

‣‣ 6 The Living Sunnah and al-Sunnah wa’l-Jamā‘ah (Fazlur Rahman)

‣‣ 7 The Fallacies of Anti-Ḥadīth Arguments (Shah Shahidullah Faridi)

‣‣ 8 Sunnah—The Factual Embodiment of Revelation (S. M. Yusuf)

‣‣ 9 Social Change and Early Sunnah (Fazlur Rahman)

‣‣ 10 Social and Cultural Realities of the Sunnah (Muhammad Asad)

‣ PART THREE—Mystical and Spiritual Dimension of the Sunnah

‣‣ 11 The Prophet as the Examplar Par Excellence (Seyyed Hossein Nasr)

‣‣ 12 Ḥadīth—Its Relevance to the Modern Times (Syed Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi)

‣‣ 13 The Place of the Prophet of Islam in Iqbāl’s Thought (Annemarie Schimmel) 

‣‣ 14 Fitrah and Sunnah (Abd al-Qadir al-Sufi al-Murabit)

‣ Appendices

‣‣ Appendix I—Extracts from al-Shāfi‘ī’s Risālah (Translated by Majid Khadduri): On the Obligation of Man to Accept the Authority of the Prophet

‣‣ Appendix II—Fundamental Ideas of al-Shāfi‘ī’s Risālah

‣ Index

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