Sunnah Tawatur And Ijma
Also listen or read mabadi tadabure sunnah in meezan
As far as Tawatur is concerned, hopefully this analogy will help understand the relationship of Tawatur with our practical lives: (It’s an excerpt from a long reply I posted a couple of months ago, just thought maybe it will prove helpful) “If I were to claim from today, that dictionary of any particular language is the only source of that language and without a dictionary, that language doesn’t exist at all. We all know that argument will be met with severe criticism. Why? Because we all know from our daily experiences that language didn’t originate from a dictionary. It is alive in a whole society, transferred from generation after generation without any written form. A kid doesn’t start speaking any particular language after reading from a dictionary. He/She learns from their surroundings, from a vast majority of people speaking it and will transfer it to the next generation in the same way and so on and so forth. Now suppose a linguist wants to pen down a dictionary of that particular language, what will he do? He’ll simply observe the people speaking a particular language and start writing the words they use, the sentence structures they use and other things as well. Same is the case with Sunnat, it is transferred from generation after generation, it doesn’t exist in any book, but it exists in ummat itself just like Quran exists in Ummat itself. If you take the Quran in the form of book away from the Ummat, the ummat can generate as any copies of it as they like. Sunnat is an independent source of religion and has the same authenticity as of Quran. All Faqih people ever did was to observe that Sunnat prevalent in Ummat and wrote it down just like how a linguist did with the dictionary.” As far as tawatur and ijma of Christians is concerned, theirs is less than that of Muslims, because of two reasons: 1) Pre-historic era. 2) We have Quran, the book of GOD, negating their ijma and Tawatur. Had it not been for Quran, the Ijma would’ve been that Jesus (AS) was crucified. But it is Quran which has clarified that they didn’t crucify Him, in fact the whole matter was made doubtful for them.
But the Quran did have different Qiraat that people believed in and still do. The method for rejecting that was from the Quran itself and looking at the hadeeth and what they really meant. Also it was by looking at what the majority of people are actually reading (I think?). So there was a need for textual criticism and analysis
Ok yes that makes sense- could you please put it in words through why it doesn’t make sense?