ahad

A Scholarly Exchange on ‘Difficult’ Narrations on Qira’at and Rasm

Waqar Akbar Cheema Abstract This write-up presents a translation of scholarly correspondence discussing ‘problematic’ reports related to Qur’anic recitations and the orthography of the Uthmanic Mushafs. It highlights how two senior scholars from early 20th-century India addressed these issues, reflecting traditional Muslim methods of engaging with information from before the codification of the relevant sciences […]

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Hanafi

Hanafis and Preference between Hadith and Qiyas

‘Abdul Majid al-Turkamani* English adaptation by Waqar Akbar Cheema[1] Abstract It is a common misconception that Abu Hanifa and the classical scholars of his school of thought preferred qiyās over hadith reports. Modernists use the same to promote their manifestly hadith rejecting ideas claiming that their approach has a precedent in the methodology of one

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