What Is Intended
The author holds that any hadith, no matter how sound its chain of transmission may be, if it conflicts with the Wise Revelation, with reality, and with what circumstances require, is rejected by him in full. For him, the criterion is not the chain of transmission alone, but conformity with revelation, reason, and reality.
The Atom’s Structure in the Atlas
- Type of argument: Critical
- Movement of the argument: He rejects reports that conflict with the Book and reality, no matter how sound their chain of transmission may be.
- Key terms: reports, soundness of the chain of transmission, the Wise Revelation, reality.
- Degree of centrality: Secondary.
It offers a direct critique of the criterion of relying on transmission alone, and calls for judging a report by its conformity to the highest source and to practical reason in life.
Links That Help with Reading
- Muhammad Shahrur: The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna
- The Sunna Between Messagehood and Prophethood
- the Wise Revelation
Basis
- Supporting text: ««Any hadith, however sound its chain of transmission may be, if it conflicts with the Wise Revelation, with reality, and with what circumstances require, it is rejected by us in both general and detailed terms.»».
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 the reading: the wording above is an analytical summary, and is not treated as a verbatim quotation unless the witness is transmitted word for word.
Its Function in the Book
Its function here is oppositional; it responds to a common understanding or overturns an inherited reading at this point.
Editorial Note
This atom reinforces the condition of semantic conformity over transmission-based authority.