This axis brings together 2 instances of the use of this verse in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse as cited
THERE IS NO HARDSHIP UPON THE PROPHET IN WHAT GOD HAS MADE OBLIGATORY FOR HIM
Brief reading
The verse is used to support the idea that the Prophet has a particularity in some rulings on marriage, not as an absolute general ruling.
Axes
- legislative
- political and social
- faith-related
Associated concepts
- marriage: 2
- prophetic specificity: 2
Its place in the network of concepts
It falls within a network that distinguishes between what is specific to the Prophet and what is general for people.
The role of the verse in the argument
- Support: 2
Instances of use
- Islam and Faith, p. 49: He cites it to show that what was prescribed for the Prophet was a divine gift that removes hardship, not merely a general ruling to be automatically analogized.
- Concept: marriage
- Function of the verse here: support
- Textual evidence: «{There is no hardship upon the Prophet in what God has made obligatory for him…} (Al-Ahzab 38).»
- Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence, p. 231: He treats it as evidence that some of the Prophet’s marital particularities were an extension of an earlier Sunna and a special legislative exception for him.
- Concept: prophetic specificity
- Function of the verse here: support
- Textual evidence: «With the note that God — Exalted be He — exempted the Prophet in the matter of women… that is, the Sunna of the early ones: { There is no hardship upon the Prophet … } (Al-Ahzab 38)»
Related books
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