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Quran

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

“The Quran was revealed in Three Places”: A Critical Analysis of a Hadith about the Holy Land

October 20, 2022 by Joshua Little

In his al-ʾItqān fī ʿUlūm al-Qurʾân, the famous Egyptian Sunnī Hadith scholar al-Suyūṭī (d. 911/1505) mentioned the following hadith: Al-Ṭabarānī cited [a hadith] in [his al-Muʿjam] al-Kabīr, from the transmission-path of al-Walīd b. Muslim, from ʿUfayr b. Maʿdān, from Ibn ʿĀmir, from ʾAbū ʾUmāmah, who said: “The Messenger of God said: “The Quran was revealed … [Read more…]

Posted in: Hadith, History, Quran, Textual Analysis Tagged: Abbasid, Hadith, history, Holy Land, Islam, Jerusalem, Joshua Little, Levant, Prophet, Quran, Stephen Shoemaker, Syria, Umayyad

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