It is the highest reference text in this source, and the criterion for acceptance and rejection of every report or hadith. Muhammad Shahrur presents it as the only text free of doubt, and the only one sufficient for miraculousness, legislation, and final correction.
- The Qur’an and reality as the criterion of acceptance
- Some prophetic reports are rejected
- A modern and political rereading of the Sunna requires criticizing inherited sacralization and placing awareness above authority
- Reports about the unseen are rejected by him
- Reports that contradict the Qur’an are rejected
- Hadith tradition is a human, conjectural production
- Qur’anic wisdom is not the prophetic Sunna
- Qur’anic approval is not exclusive to the Companions
- The messengerly Sunna is binding in the sphere of the message and legislation, not as a second revelation
- The messengerly Sunna and the prophetic Sunna
- Contemporary Sunna is understood through Qur’anic terms, not through inherited sacralization
- The prophetic Sunna, political history, and hadith form a human domain open to criticism
- The Sunna is divided into messengerly and prophetic according to the context
- The Sunna is divided according to context into binding messengerly Sunna and historical prophetic Sunna
- The Sunna is not a parallel source to the Revelation
- The Qur’an is the الرسول’s only miracle
- The Qur’an is the governing reference over the Sunna and hadith
- The Book alone is a text free of doubt
- The authority of the Sunna and its limits are built on the primacy of the Qur’an, criticism of hadith, and distinguishing between the two contexts