Is The Sunnah Divinely Protected Like Quran, And How Does It Differ From Hadith?
@Ahsan : Correct me if I’m wrong please: I believe the best approach would be instead of climbing up to the Qur’an, we climb down from it as necessary. Meaning: Understand the Qur’an by taking help from the Qur’an itself to clarify its interpretation of words according to its own context (of the words in other occurrences). I believe 80%+ of the Qur’an is understandable by any layman,.and among the remaining, it’s either a story of which the context is unclear, which we could refer to authentic (and Mutawattur) sources (hadiths and previous scriptures), AND/OR the practicing/ritual elements, like Salaat, Umrah, Hajj etc…which we can watch and learn as it’s been passed down through amaly tawatur. Now if that allows us to follow 100% of the Qur’an , then our syllabus is covered. For the rest of the plathorea of resources, like 99% of the hadiths, we don’t need it in our “Deen”. Likewise, the Sunnah that has nothing to do with Deen (i.e. not required by the Qur’an), again, why do we bother? Kindly comment on this approach (summary below). Summary: Qur’an alone for religious guidance. And refer to the living Sunnah only to practice the obligations of the Qur’an that are not detailed/visualised in the Qur’an.