What is meant
Shahrur sees wisdom in the Qur’an as not the prophetic Sunna, but as specific ethical and legal commands and prohibitions within the context of the Qur’an Therefore, he links it to a practical content that guides behavior and legislation, not to the conventional concept of the Sunna
The atom’s structure in the atlas
- Type of argument: interpretive
- Argument movement: it explains wisdom as Qur’anic commands, not inherited Sunna.
- Key terms: wisdom, Qur’an, prophetic Sunna.
- Degree of centrality: secondary.
The atom returns the meaning of wisdom to within the Qur’anic text and prevents equating it with the commonly used Sunna as an independent or inherited reference.
Reading aids
- Muhammad Shahrur, The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna
- Sunna between messengerhood and prophethood
- the Qur’an
- the prophetic Sunna
- Contemporary Sunna is understood through Qur’anic vocabulary, not through inherited sanctification
Basis
- Supporting text: “He states that wisdom in the Qur’an does not mean the prophetic Sunna, but in its context refers to specific ethical and legal commands and prohibitions.”
Place of the basis in the book
- Book: The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna.
- Location: in the first section of the book
- Type of basis: near evidence.
- Verification marker: not the prophetic Sunna
- Reading note: this location is suitable as evidence because it denies that the wisdom mentioned in the Qur’an is the prophetic Sunna, while providing a close explanation of the idea of a specific legislative meaning.
Degree of documentation
- Level: directly documented
- Meaning of the level: the atom relies on an explicit witness close to the wording of the claim.
- Reading limits: the formulation above is an analytical summary, and should not be treated as a verbatim quotation unless the witness is quoted verbatim.
Its function in the book
Its function here is definitional; it fixes a meaning or conceptual distinction that Shahrur relies on in building the idea.
Related to
Editorial note
The atom supports recalibrating Qur’anic terms.