Mohammad Shahrour and the place of hadith in jurisprudence

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1 Faculty of Jurisprudence and Fundamentals of Law, International University of Islamic Religions, Department of Shafi'i Jurisprudence and Law

2 International University of Islamic Denominations

3 PhD student in Fiqh and Fundamentals of Islamic Law at the International University of Islamic Religions

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Muhammad Shahrour is one of the contemporary Quranists who aim to weaken the place of Hadith in jurisprudence.  To prove this claim, he presents Quranism as a complete alternative and then questions the doctrine of  the Justice of the Companions and rejects the Sunni hadiths regarding the justice of the Companions. He then challenges the infallibility of the prophets and the concept of the Sunnah in order to discredit the hadiths transmitted from the Prophet and to discredit the position of the Sunnah as a foundation of jurisprudence. For this purpose, he rejects the validity and effectiveness of the teachings found in the prophetic tradition and emphasizes their historicity. By adopting the descriptive-analytical method, this article attempts to provide a critique of the disregard for Hadith in the jurisprudential inference system of Shahrour. For this purpose, an attempt has been made to respond to the controversies so that the position of hadith is recognized as one of the pillars of valid jurisprudence.

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