What is meant
Shahrur holds that every prophetic hadith that collides with a text from the Wise Revelation is invalid For him, the decisive criterion is the Qur’an; whatever contradicts it is not accepted, even if it is attributed to the Prophet
The Atom’s Structure in the Atlas
- Type of argument: legislative
- Movement of the argument: every hadith that collides with the Qur’an is returned to invalidity.
- Key terms: prophetic hadith, the Wise Revelation, invalidity, the Qur’an.
- Degree of centrality: central.
It draws a line between what is accepted and what is rejected in transmitted reports, and makes the Qur’anic text the supreme reference by which reports attributed to authority are tested.
Links to help with reading
- Muhammad Shahrur: The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna
- The Sunna between messengerhood and prophethood
- the Wise Revelation
- the Qur’an
- The contemporary Sunna is understood through Qur’anic vocabulary, not through inherited sacralization
Grounding
- Supporting text: ««Every prophetic hadith that contradicts a text from the texts of the Wise Revelation is invalid»».
Place of the grounding in the book
- Book: The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna.
- Location: in the first section of the book, within the discussion of the status of hadith in relation to the Wise Revelation.
- Type of grounding: close citation.
- Marker that helps verification: rejected
- Reading note: this passage is suitable as support because it ties the acceptance of hadith to its conformity with the Qur’an, and is understood as rejecting what contradicts it.
Degree of documentation
- Level: directly documented
- Meaning of the level: the atom relies on an explicit witness close to the wording of the claim.
- Limits of reading: the wording above is an analytical summary, and should not be treated as a verbatim quotation unless the witness is transmitted verbatim.
Its function in the book
Its function here is adversarial; it responds to a common understanding or overturns an inherited reading in this passage.
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Editorial note
The atom relies on the criterion of conformity, not merely on the soundness of the traditional chain of transmission.