Sunna Notes

Volume 2The Excellent Innovation in the Qur’an and Hadithby Gibril Fouad Haddad

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Sunna Notes�tudies in �adith & �octrine �

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Sunna Notes

Gibril F

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ad Haddad

2

Volume 2The Excellent Innovation in the Qur’an and Hadith

aqsaWARDA PUBLICATIONS | GERMANY

WARDA

aqsa publications | UK

ISBN 0-9547540-7-7

9 7 8 0 9 5 4 7 5 4 0 7 5

I SBN 0-9547540-7-7 with Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali’s

Th e Sunna of the Caliphs

Nowhere in the fi eld of Islamic jurisprudence is a blatant tampering with the truth felt more than in the redefi nition of “Sunna” and “bidʿa”. Th e understanding of the pious Salaf such as Imām al-Shāfi ʿī for these terms is arrogantly cast aside. Th eir crystal-clear distinction: “Bidʿa is of two kinds: praiseworthy innovation and blameworthy innovation” is being abandoned, while in their place, later, controversial fi gures are invoked as “more representative of the Salaf”. Newfangled theories have wormed their way into the discourse on right and wrong and – even worse – entire generations of Muslims have been weaned on these perversions of the truth and go into the world parroting the terms “Sunna” and “bidʿa” without ever understanding them. Choice victims for this campaign of disinformation in our time are English-speaking Muslims, especially new Muslims. Th ey learn a few expressions then, coiff ed with their new hat of condemnatory phrases, go out and blast away at other Muslims.

Th e purpose of this book is to do away once and for all with these perilous misconceptions and to present over 160 proofs for the Sunni understanding of Sunna and bidʿa as it was – and continues to be – set forth in classical, moderate, mainstream Islam according to the Sunni Salaf and Khalaf including the Four Schools of Fiqh.

Sunna Notes

Volume 2The Excellent Innovation in the Qur’an and Hadithby Gibril Fouad Haddad

�tudies in �adith & �octrine

Sunna Notes�tudies in �adith & �octrine �

tudies in �adith &

�octrine

Sunna Notes

Gibril F

ou

ad Haddad

2

Volume 2The Excellent Innovation in the Qur’an and Hadith

aqsaWARDA PUBLICATIONS | GERMANY

WARDA

aqsa publications | UK

ISBN 0-9547540-7-7

9 7 8 0 9 5 4 7 5 4 0 7 5

I SBN 0-9547540-7-7 with Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali’s

Th e Sunna of the Caliphs

Nowhere in the fi eld of Islamic jurisprudence is a blatant tampering with the truth felt more than in the redefi nition of “Sunna” and “bidʿa”. Th e understanding of the pious Salaf such as Imām al-Shāfi ʿī for these terms is arrogantly cast aside. Th eir crystal-clear distinction: “Bidʿa is of two kinds: praiseworthy innovation and blameworthy innovation” is being abandoned, while in their place, later, controversial fi gures are invoked as “more representative of the Salaf”. Newfangled theories have wormed their way into the discourse on right and wrong and – even worse – entire generations of Muslims have been weaned on these perversions of the truth and go into the world parroting the terms “Sunna” and “bidʿa” without ever understanding them. Choice victims for this campaign of disinformation in our time are English-speaking Muslims, especially new Muslims. Th ey learn a few expressions then, coiff ed with their new hat of condemnatory phrases, go out and blast away at other Muslims.

Th e purpose of this book is to do away once and for all with these perilous misconceptions and to present over 160 proofs for the Sunni understanding of Sunna and bidʿa as it was – and continues to be – set forth in classical, moderate, mainstream Islam according to the Sunni Salaf and Khalaf including the Four Schools of Fiqh.