Hadith Interpretation

Between Cure and Context: Rethinking Prophetic Medicine

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Waqar Akbar Cheema Abstract This paper revisits “prophetic medicine” (tibb al-nabawi) by addressing a central confusion in its interpretation: the conflation of truth with universal applicability. Hadith reports describing cures are often treated either as binding prescriptions or dismissed as context-bound and unreliable. Both readings, it is argued, are mistaken. Drawing on classical scholarship, the Read more

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Hadith and the Impression of Substitutionary Atonement

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Abstract Claims that Islam teaches substitutionary atonement based on the Abu Musa hadith collapse under close reading. By tracing the report’s three formulations, its placement in Sahih Muslim, and its explanation by al-Baihaqi, al-Nawawi, Ibn Ḥajar, and others, this article shows that the narrations describe reciprocal outcomes—not vicarious punishment. The explicit mention of Jews and

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Between Duty and Death: Prophet Musa Slaps an Angel

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Waqar Akbar Cheema Abstract Few hadith reports have been quoted as often and understood as poorly as the account of Prophet Musa striking the Angel of Death. To critics, it appears to depict prophetic rashness, angelic vulnerability, and even resistance to divine decree. To others, it is waved away as an awkward relic preserved uncritically

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