The Book: The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna

37 pages

• The Prophet’s daily actions are not binding Sunna
• Those in authority are a legislative authority
• Unseen-related hadiths are rejected by him
• Contradictory hadiths are rejected
• Hadiths that contradict the Qur’an are rejected
• The model is in the station of messengerhood
• Human ijtihad within divine limits
• Prophetic history became a revolution for building the state
• The heritage contains universal ethical wisdom
• Distinguishing between the messengerly Sunna and the prophetic Sunna
• The pilgrimage is a communal rite
• Qur’anic wisdom is not the prophetic Sunna
• The Muhammadan message is fixed in its original form
• Qur’anic approval is not exclusive to the Companions
• Human Sunna is changeable
• The messengerly Sunna is tied to the message
• The messengerly Sunna and the prophetic Sunna
• Contemporary Sunna is read through the Qur’an
• The prophetic Sunna is historical and interpretive
• The prophetic Sunna is historically conditioned
• The prophetic Sunna and the domain of narratives
• Sunna is divided into messengerly and prophetic
• The Sunna is not a second revelation
• The Sunna is a tool for sectarian conflict
• Rituals are the domain of the messengerly Sunna
• Prophetic obedience is historical and limited
• Obedience is to law, not coercion
• The Qur’an is the Messenger’s only miracle
• The Qur’an and reality are the criterion of acceptance
• Prophetic reports may be historical arrangements
• Abrogation is confined to the heavenly messages
• Some prophetic reports are rejected
• Shahrur rejects equating saying with utterance
• The legendary image of the Messenger
• The station of messengerhood and the rulings of obedience
• The station of prophethood and the station of messengerhood
• The station of prophethood guides social organization