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"Hadith is a means of going astray." What?? I was shocked when I heard that. What he meant was, reading uncontextualized hadiths and not knowing the explanation or the secondary meaning of terms will lead a person into such a pit of confusion, they may lose their Iman.
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And how many times have we entered into a complete abyss of bewilderment from self-studying a hadith that seemed to contradict everything we ever knew. It's very commonplace.
And guess what. This isn’t new. It happened to early Muslims too. Ibn Wahb said, “Were it not for Malik and Layth, I would have been destroyed. I used to believe that everything narrated about the Prophet peace and blessings be upon him should be acted upon” (Dhahabi).
Rather, any solitary hadith that has no context or explanation of its circumstances is suspended and not acted upon, made law, or made an obligatory belief. This is why we need scholarship to corroborate evidence and qualify our application of hadith.
That scholarship is called fiqh, and their called the Four Madhhabs. They weighed all the evidences and checked, re-checked, and triple checked to make sure their fiqh is air tight.
This is why these madhhabs have passed the test of time, still givijg guidance to ppl’s lives.
This is why these madhhabs have passed the test of time, still givijg guidance to ppl’s lives.
@n1999xo What you were talking about.
