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Contemporary Studies in the Sunnah

Course Description: This course includes the study of the most important contemporary studies and their methodologies, both those in agreement and in disagreement with the Sunnah, a scientifically sound critique of them, and the study of the close relationship between the Prophetic Sunnah and contemporary sciences.

Credit hours: 4

Objectives of the course :

Empowering students to recognize the most important contemporary studies and their methodologies, both in accordance with and in opposition to the Sunnah, and equipping them with the ability to critically analyze and refute issues and doubts concerning hadith, according to methodological and scientific controls for contemporary studies of the Prophetic Sunnah, and studying the close relationship between the Prophetic Sunnah and the sciences of the age.

Course outputs :

Knowledge and understanding:
To explain contemporary trends in the Prophetic Sunnah, both dissenting and compliant, in the study of the Prophetic Sunnah.
2- To describe the methodologies of compilers in contemporary studies of the Prophetic Sunnah.
3. To identify the methodological controls of contemporary studies on the Sunnah of the Prophet, based on induction and analysis.
4- To enumerate past and contemporary positions and attitudes, both dissenting and conforming, within the Prophetic Sunnah.
5. To analyze the close relationship between the Prophetic Sunnah and contemporary sciences, and the Sunnah's capacity and breadth to encompass all modern crises.
To write advanced research and scientific activities in contemporary studies on the Sunnah and its congruent and incongruent methodologies, and to critically evaluate it with sound scientific critique.
Skills:
1- Applies contemporary curriculum analysis skills in various hadith contexts, according to the methodological and scientific controls of contemporary studies in the Prophetic Sunnah.
2- Compares contemporary study approaches to the authentic Sunnah that align with and deviate from the correct methodology, with criticism and refutation of issues and doubts concerning the conception of the latter.
3. He excels at summarizing, formulating, and presenting issues, and then combining or responding to them, with a smooth flow in his research and studies.
4- Employs scientific research skills according to quality standards to prepare applied research in “Contemporary Studies in Hadith” using advanced technical methods.
5. Interpret hadith in relation to contemporary issues using the correct scientific methodology, proceeding with caution when it comes to definitive conclusions in areas of disagreement.
Values, autonomy and responsibility:
Initiates constructive solutions to research problems and benefits from them in societal issues by linking the prophetic methodology in the Sunnah with its practical application in reality.
2- Adheres to professional and academic ethical practices in communication with colleagues and instructors.
3- Deals with the electronic information network with the ethics of responsible citizenship.
4. Uses university and scientific institution digital library resources with integrity and academic honesty.

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Course Topics:
An introductory overview of the comprehensiveness of the Prophetic Sunnah and its coverage of all aspects of life.
Identify contemporary studies, both favorable and unfavorable.
Highlighting the efforts of earlier scholars in addressing certain contemporary studies, whether in independent books or in books of Hadith explanations.
Scientific and Methodological Controls for Contemporary Studies on the Prophetic Sunnah, including:
A - Reasoning by the constant and known, avoiding topics of extreme weakness, and highlighting the role of the specialist in Hadith in compensating for this aspect. .
B - Balance in understanding texts, avoiding exaggeration in deriving implications, and the necessity for the researcher to be knowledgeable in the rules of inference, Arabic language, and its literature. .
C - The researcher's need to read in the art they want to delve into, using the Sunnah, and understanding its terminology, before proceeding to collect texts on the subject. .
D. Emphasizing that any topic the researcher wishes to address must align with the general direction of the texts it contains. Therefore, texts must be meticulously followed and their semantic weight concerning the research issue must be highlighted. .
H – Highlighting the philosophical aspect of Islam in its view of individual issues and linking this to the fundamental idea from which contemporary Islamic studies launch for any topic.
A critical study of the most important contemporary trends in the Prophetic Sunnah, such as the methodology of the contemporary rationalist school and its ancient Mu'tazilite extensions. And a study of the methodology of some scholars of scientific inimitability in the Prophetic Sunnah.
A critical study of the most important contemporary positions on the Prophetic Sunnah, which are as follows:
First scenario: Deniers of the Prophetic Sunnah: This includes:
Deniers of the Sunnah (both widespread and individual narrations) and refuting their doubts and responding to them. .
Deniers of Ahad (singular) Hadith, Refuting Their Doubts and Responding to Them .
Second situation: Differentiating between legislative and non-legislative prophetic Sunnah, and the difference between the Sunnah as a source of legislation and the collections of prophetic Sunnah.
Third position: Critique of Sunnah texts
Appealing to abstract reason in the critique of prophetic traditions.
Appealing to the Quran to reject prophetic Sunnah texts. .
Scenario 4: Critique of the Methodology and Tools of the Muhaddithin in Examining and Studying the Prophetic Sunnah. For example:
Critique of the modernists' stance on justice and reliability among the Companions, their stance on the modernists' tools for invalidating and confirming narrators, and on tadlis, and so forth. .
Fifth situation: The modernists' stance on Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim. .

Last updated: 2026-04-16