Muhammad Tawfiq Sidqi

Muhammad Tawfiq Sidqi (Arabic: محمد توفيق صدقي, romanized: Muḥammad Tawfīq Ṣidqī; 1881–1920) was an Egyptian physician and Quranist scholar who is credited with laying the intellectual foundations of Quranism.Sidqi, Muhammad Tawfiq, "al-Islam huwa al-Qur'an wahdahu," al-Manar 9 (1906), 515; cited in  In 1906, he published an article entitled "Islam is the Qur'an Alone" (Al-Islām huwa l-Qurʾān Waḥda-hū) in Rashid Rida's magazine Al-Manār.The text can be viewed here. As the name of the article suggests, Sidqi accepted the Qur'an alone as an authoritative religious source and was convinced that it contained all the necessary information.Juynboll: The Authenticity of the Tradition Literature. 1969, p. 24. The Sunnah of the Prophet was only a model for his contemporaries. If the Prophet had wanted Hadiths to reach future generations, he would have had them written down – just like the Qur'an.Ṣidqī, Al-Islām huwa l-Qurʾān Waḥda-hū 1906, p. 515. Muslims today are therefore free to decide whether or not to follow something that is narrated by the Prophet and is not contained in the Qur'an.Ṣidqī, Al-Islām huwa l-Qurʾān Waḥda-hū 1906, p. 522. 

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