Evidence location: Muhammad Shahrur, The Prophetic Sunnah and the Prophet’s Sunnah; p. 23؛ OCR line 373. Arabic source witness: «إعادة فهم الدين فهماً صحيحاً انطلاقاً من التنزيل الحكيم، بإعادة دراسة الأحاديث وتنقيحها بناءً عليه»
Position Attributed to Him
The available testimony indicates that Shahrur rejects eschatological hadiths, specifically mentioning the punishment of the grave, the Night Journey, and certain reports of tribulations. The testimony attributes this rejection to their being, in his view, contrary to the Qur’an and to modern knowledge, or susceptible to political instrumentalization.
Summary testimony: “He rejects eschatological hadiths, especially those concerning the punishment of the grave, the Night Journey, and certain reports of tribulations, because he considers them contrary to the Qur’an and to modern knowledge, or susceptible to political instrumentalization.”
Limits of the Evidence
This text is a summary testimony in the third-person form and does not provide raw context or a specific location in the book. It is therefore recorded here as a documented attribution in the evidence record, rather than as a verbatim text issued by Shahrur. Nor does the testimony specify in detail the reports intended or the method of preferring one criterion over another.
In the Context of the Book
This claim atom is read alongside Muhammad Shahrur: The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna, the Sunna between messengerhood and prophethood, and the contemporary Sunna is understood through Qur’anic terms, not through inherited sacralization.