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Muslims; are hadith and sunnah synonymous?
The QUran says to follow the Sunnah of the prophet. Isn't the Prophet's Sunnah his message of the Quran? ANd I know hadith are important in providing moral lessons; but I do have some reservations when it comes to using them as a source of law..esp. when the law is illogical/oppressive. And if that's so, why don't we follow the Bible and Torah as the Quran has commanded? Do u get my point? Peace.
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- Sunnah is always an act of the prophet, alaihissalaam, while a hadith is a report of his statement, act, silent approval or an incident that took place in his life. Sunnah has come down to us from generation to generation while hadith has been reported, in most cases, by one individual to another. Thus the act that qualifies as sunnah is undoubtedly authentic -- quite as authentic as the Qur'an itself -- while hadith, at best, carries a strong probability that it may have been correctively reported. This is because God Almighty arranged the two sources to be the way they are: He arranged sunnah to remain completed beyond doubt, because it was to be a part of His last message and allowed hadith to be a human effort at preserving information about the prophet. Sunnah is clear in what it stands for where as the context of a hadith had to be understood (and therefore interpreted) by all the narrators involved in the chain of transmission. The process of interpretation has also got to be done now by whoever is to benefit from a hadith. Sunnah has to be religious because the prophet, alaihissalaam, like all other prophets, came to give God's message in the form of religion to mankind. http://www.renaissance.com.pk/novq92y1.html http://www.khalidzaheer.com/qa/362
- Hadiths are the recorded sayings of the prophet. Sunnah is the actions or doings of the prophet Muhammed (pbuh). So I guess that they are very similar in nature.
- yes they r very similar. hadeeth r the sayings of prophet Mohammad (SAw) and sunnah r wat he used to do. but the Quran does not command us to follow the Bible and Torah, it says to respect them, but the only book we FOLLOW is the Quran.
