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Exegesis

Explaining Contradictions in Exegetical Hadith

August 17, 2023 by Joshua Little

In a recent thread on the website formerly known as Twitter, a user named D1mashqi criticised one of the points I outlined in my podcast discussion with Javad Hashmi regarding some of the problems with the authenticity of Hadith. The point in question concerns the unreliability of exegetical Hadith in particular, which I summarised on … [Read more…]

Posted in: Hadith, History, Theory Tagged: Exegesis, Exegetical Hadith, Hadith, history, Michael Cook, Quran

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