What the witness establishes
Shahrur links the connected obedience to following the Messenger in his messengerly Sunna. He regards it as pertaining to the rulings of the message set out in the Mother of the Book, as well as to human values, rituals, the theory of limits, and the principle of enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong.
He describes this obedience as eternal, universal, and comprehensive, and includes within it obedience to the Messenger in the rituals of prayer and almsgiving.
Scope of the claim
The witness establishes this definition of the messengerly Sunna and the connected obedience. It does not provide a definition of the prophetic Sunna or detail the difference between it and the messengerly Sunna.
For context-related reading: Muhammad Shahrur: The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna, and The Sunna between Messengerhood and Prophethood.
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