This entry belongs to Shahrur’s glossary. In Shahrur’s view, wisdom appears as a system of ethical and legislative commandments, prohibitions, and injunctions within the Qur’an, not as another name for the Prophetic Sunna or hadith.
Meaning in Shahrur
Wisdom is not a source parallel to revelation, nor is it an independent hadith-based authority separate from the Qur’an. In Shahrur’s reading, it is part of the Qur’anic discourse itself: practical values, noble ethics, and directives that regulate conduct within the sphere of the message.
What distinguishes it
- It differs from the Prophetic Sunna because, for him, it does not refer to everything historically attributed to the Prophet.
- It differs from hadith because it is not a human report subject to authentication and weakening.
- It is connected to the Qur’an because it is understood from within the verses of injunctions, values, and commands.
- It helps critique equating wisdom with the Sunna in jurisprudence and hadith.
Foundational links
- Qur’anic wisdom is not the Prophetic Sunna
- The Sunna is not a second revelation
- The Sunna is not a parallel source to revelation
- Sunna
- The messengerly and Prophetic Sunna
Close verses
Limits of the reading
This entry does not restrict all meanings of wisdom to a single sense, but it does define the disputed point in Shahrur’s project: wisdom does not become another name for hadith, nor an independent category competing with the Qur’an.