Sunna Notes Volume 3: The Binding Proof of the Sunnah 3

"The meaning of the expression Binding Proof of the Sunnah is that the Sunna points to the judgment of Allah Most High, either as definitive knowledge ('ilm) or as as probable knowledge (zann), bringing it out and disclosing it for us. We understand the Divine rulings by means of the Sunna and it becomes binding upon us to put its content into practice, So the real meaning of the Sunna as binding proof is exposition and proof-inference necessitating obligatory practice of their results because the latter is the Divine decision." Dr. 'Abd al-Ghani B, 'Abd al-Khaliq "The Sunna is the first subsidiary source (masadar far i) after the Quran among the sources of Islamic Law. We describe it as a subsidiary source because it is the Quran that actually indicated that it is a source, and the basis of everything is the Quran. The Quran commanded us to follow the Messenger of Allah: therefore we follow the Messenger of Allah." Dr. Muhammad Sa'id Ibn Mulla Ramadan Al-Buti Abbreviations  Chains of Transmission – Dedication  Foreword: e Proofs of the Sunna by Muḥammad Saʿīd Ramaḍān al-Būṭī  e Sources of the Law  e Meanings of Sunna  Fiqh Levels of the Sunna  Neither Disregard Nor Exaggerate  Muslims Who Denigrate the Sunna  Muslims Who Denigrate Prophetic Medicine  e Inferiority Complex  Anti-Sunna Infiltrators  Ways to Undermine the Sunna  e “Qur’ān-Only” Fraud  Assault on Ḥadīth Science Targeting Islam  e Binding Proof of the Sunna adapted from ʿAbd al-Ghanī ʿAbd al-Khāliq’s Ḥujjiyyat al-Sunna  Preliminaries  {e Decision Rests with Allah Only}  {And Obey the Prophet}  Conditions for Using Ḥadīth as Proof  Differences in Relying upon Ḥadīth Transmission  e General Evidentiary Force of the Sunna  Chapter : e Prophet’s Immune State Dictates that Ḥadīth is Revelation  Chapter : Divine Approval of the Companions’ Conformity with the Sunna  Chapter : Proofs from the Noble Qur’ān for the Sunna as Evidence  a) Verses that Indicate the Obligatoriness of Believing in the Prophet e  b) Verses that indicate that the Prophet e elucidates the Book and explains its wisdom in a manner that carries authority on the part of Allah Y  c) Verses that indicate the obligatoriness of obeying the Prophet r in absolute terms  d) Verses that indicate the obligatoriness of following and imitating him e in whatsoever issues from him  e) Verses indicating that Allah I has tasked the Prophet e with following and conveying what is revealed to him  Chapter : Proofs from the Noble Sunna for the Sunna as Evidence          e :  1. Allah I has revealed to him e the Qur’ān and other than it  2.Whatever legal rulings he e has expounded and stipulated are the expositions and stipulations of Allah Himself  3. It is impossible to understand the laws and ordinances of Islam from the Qur’ān alone  4. Sunna-based practice is Qur’ān-based  5. e Umma in its entirety and without exception has been ordered to accept his e words, obey his commands and prohibitions, and follow his Sunna  6.Whoever obeys him e and holds fast to his Sunna obeys Allah I and follows guidance  7.Whoever disobeys him e and rejects his sayings has disobeyed Allah, followed misguidance, and perished  8. Faith and belief remains incomplete until one follows all that he e brought  9. Nothing but truth comes out of his e blessed mouth  10. e best guidance of all is his e guidance  e ḥadīth “I have le among you two matters...”  11. Anything that he e did not himself bring but which people innovate aer him according to their whims and caprice, or to serve their lusts, is an innovation   e          -            ’        e      ,  ,           Chapter : It is Unfeasible to Act Solely on the Basis of the Qur’ān  Ibn Ḥajar’s Commentary on the Ḥadīth of Islām,Īmān,Ihsān  . 1. Al-Bukhārī’s Chapter-Title and First Narration: Book of Īmān  2. Al-Bukhārī’s Second Narration: Book of Tafsīr  3. Muslim’s First Set of Narrations  4. Muslim’s Second Set of Narrations  5. Muslim’s ird Narration  6. Ibn Ḥajar’s Commentary on al-Bukhārī’s Chapter-Title and First Narration as well as the Variants  e Difference Between Islām and Īmān  e Complementariness of Islām and Īmān  Muslim’s Chains and the Variance of eir Texts  e Reason is Ḥadīth Took Place  A Note of Benefit on the Qadariyya Heresy  A Warning: Confirmation vs. Mere Belief  A Warning: ere is No Sight of Allah I in the World  Critique of Ibn ʿArabī’s Interpretation  A Note of Benefit: e Questioner Already Knew  A Note of Benefit: ʿĪsā u Asked Gibril u about the Hour  Two Warnings: Child-Bearing Slaves – e Word “Lord”  A Warning: Knowledge of the Unseen  A Note of Benefit: Cognizance and Knowledge  Warnings: Gibril’s Form–Didacticism– “Mother of the Sunna”  Indexes  Index of Qur’ānic Verses  Index of Narrations  Bibliography  Adapted from 'Abd al-Ghani 'Abd al-Khaliq's Hujjiyyat al-Sunna With Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani's The Hadith of Gibril From Fath al-Bari From the Forward: 'The Sunna is the first subsidiary source (masdar far'i) after the Qur'an among the sources of Islamic law. We describe it as a subsidiary source because it is the Qur'an that actually indicated that it is a source, and the basis of everything is the Qur'an. The Qur'an commanded us to follow the messenger of Allah: therefore we follow the messenger of Allah.' -Shaykh Muhammad Sa'id Ibn Mulla Ramadan al-Buti "The meaning of the expression Binding Proof of the Sunnah is that the Sunna points to the judgment of Allah Most High, either as definitive knowledge ('ilm) or as as probable knowledge (zann), bringing it out and disclosing it for us. We understand the Divine rulings by means of the Sunna and it becomes binding upon us to put its content into practice, So the real meaning of the Sunna as binding proof is exposition and proof-inference necessitating obligatory practice of their results because the latter is the Divine decision." Dr. 'Abd al-Ghani B, 'Abd al-Khaliq "The Sunna is the first subsidary source (masadar far i) after the Quran among the sources of Islamic Law. We describe it as a subsidary source because it is the Quran that actually indicated that it is a source, and the basis of everything is the Quran. The Quran commanded us to follow the Messenger of Allah: therefore we follow the Messenger of Allah." Dr. Muhammad Sa'id Ibn Mulla Ramadan Al-Buti