eco EEN AUTHORITY | SUNNAH RecitalCONTENTS Page Foreword 3 Chapter 1 Sunnah: the Second Source of Islamic law 5 Definition of Sunnah 6 ‘The status of the Holy Prophet 6 ‘The obedience of the Messenger 9 Ittiba’ (following) of the Prophet 18 Two kinds of revelation , 23 ‘The second kind of revelation proved by the Holy Quran 23 ‘The obedience of the Prophet as distinct from the obedience of a ruler 40 Chapter 2 The scope of the Prophetic Authority 45 The Prophet's Authority to make laws 45 ‘The Holy Prophet's Authority to interpret the Holy Quran 53 Examples of Prophetic explanations of the Quran 54 Does the Holy Quran need explanation? 59 The time limit of the Prophetic authority 61 The Prophetic Authority in worldly affairs 67 ‘The event of fecundation of the palm-trees 70 Chapter 3 ‘The authenticity of the "Sunnah": its historical aspect 75 The preservation of Sunnah 78 Three kinds of Ahadith 78‘The authenticity of the first wo kinds Different ways of Ahadith preservation 1. Memorization 2. Discussions 3, Practice Writing ‘The compilation of Hadith in the days of the Holy Prophet The dictations of the Holy Prophet The book of sadaqah ‘The script copy of Amr b. Hazm Written directives to other Govemors, Written directives for certain delegations ‘The compilations of Hadith by the companions of the Holy Prophet ‘The scripts of Abu Hurairah ‘The script of Abdullah ibn Amr ‘The script of Anas ‘The script of Ali Scripts of Jabir Scripts of Ibn ‘Abbas ‘The compilation of ahadith in the era afier the companions ‘The compilations of the first century ‘The books of hadith written in the second century ‘The criticism of ahadith 1. Scrutiny of the narrators 2. Constancy of the chain of narrators 3. Comparison with other narrations 4. General analysis of the tradition Conclusion 83 83 89 93 HL 3 1S 8 120 123 125 125 126