Is Quran Enough To Study Religion? Why Rely On Hadith Corpus?
mere zehan me bhi yahi sawal hai,ke ahadees to 200,250 saal baad likhi gayi,or agar rivayaat se hi quraan ko samjha jasakta hai to rasool ne khud kyun baad ke logon tak nahi puhchayi jis tarha quraan puhchaya hai,itna vaqfa kyu raha or 200,250 saal tak log quraan kaise samajty thy kya unhe rivayat ya ahadees ki zaroorat nahi thi.
To Understand Ghamidi Sahab’s epistemological approach towards Hadith Corpus , please refer to the following thread-link which contains comprehensive responses of Ghamidi Sahab touching this topic: Discussion 66135 • Reply 66162 ___ Regarding correct attitude towards Ahadith in understanding Quran, Ghamidi Sahab writes in Meezan under Principles of understanding Quran (Complete: Discussion 55737 ) : …”Secondly full importance should be given to whatever is mentioned in Ahadith and Athar literature with reference to the Prophet (sws) and his Companions (rta). No doubt they contain many spurious things, and since the original words have not always been preserved and a narrator has relied on his own intellect to transmit these words, a lot of changes have come about in the original words, yet this literature still contains many valuable gems. While pointing out the correct attitude in this regard, Imam Amin Ahsan Islahi writes: Among the dhanni [non-definite] sources of tafsir, Ahadith and Athar occupy the highest status. If their authenticity could have been fully relied upon, they would have had the same importance in tafsir as the Sunnat-i Mutawatirah. However, since Ahadith and Athar do not possess this degree of authenticity, they can only be benefited from as far as they are found to be in conformity with the absolute principles of interpreting the Quran delineated above. Those who give such importance to the Hadith that they make the Quran subservient to it are neither aware of the status of the Quran nor that of the Hadith. On other hand, people who don’t even refer to the Ahadith and Athar in interpreting the Quran deprive themselves of a great treasure second only to the Quran. I consider the Hadith to be totally derived from the Quran; thus I have not confined myself to Ahadith which are mentioned in relation to a verse of the Quran; as far as I could, I have tried to benefit from the whole corpus of the Hadith. They have helped me the most in understanding the wisdom of the Qur’an. If I have found a Hadith which is not in harmony with the Quran, I have deliberated upon it for a long period, and I have only rejected it when it became abundantly clear to me that it was against the Quran or it was in conflict with some principle of religion. As far as correct Ahadith are concerned, seldom has there arisen a case in which they contradict the Quran; however, when this was the case, I have preferred the Quran to them, and have written my reasons of this preference in detail (Amin Ahsan Islahi, Tadabbur-i Quran, vol. 1, 30.) “