What is meant
The point is not to rule that every hadith should be rejected, but to establish a qualified rule of acceptance: the soundness of the chain of transmission alone is not sufficient if Shahrur considers the content of the hadith to conflict with the Revelation or with human values.
What is attributed to Shahrur
The witness attributed to the book states that he “rejects hadiths that he sees as conflicting with the Revelation or with human values, and considers them rejected even if their chain of transmission is sound.” Elsewhere in the book, Shahrur appears to mention “the human values found in it” among what he associates with the Messengerly Sunna.
Muhammad Shahrur: The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna
The atlas’s explanation
This atom reads the statement as shifting the center of evaluation from the soundness of the chain alone to an examination of the content of the report as well. Therefore, within this presentation, it is not valid to regard chain-based authentication as sufficient in itself for acceptance.
The Sunna between messengerhood and prophethood
The Sunna is divided into messengerly and prophetic
Qualified conclusion
If the statement is taken at face value, the soundness of the chain does not settle acceptance in this case; in Shahrur’s view as conveyed by the witness, a hadith may be rejected despite the soundness of its chain when such a conflict is established. The witness does not explain how the soundness of the chain or the conflict is determined.
Open question and limits
The available witness does not define what “conflict with the Revelation” means, nor does it provide a detailed test for human values or an ordering between them when they differ. The principal witness is present as a documented quotation in the page metadata, but its raw context is unavailable; therefore, the rule requires a broader raw witness before it can be expanded into a complete theory of hadith criticism.
The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna · The Sunna is divided into messengerly and prophetic