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Taking Law In Your Own Hands In The Light Of Narration In Seerat Ibn Hasham
Assalamualaikum
There is a story in Seerat ibn Hasham,
I read on page 72 in which someone(Jew) in Madinah tried to make a serious and filthy fun of a Muslim woman and a Muslim man came and killed that person.I don’t have much knowledge of Ahadees,so please you can check it and also read it in Arabic (Ibn e Hasham),but if that is true,a person took law in his hands and we don’t get in book that if Prophet SAW did say anything about it,(you can read the whole story),so if that is true doing qiyas on that if a person takes law in these type of situations in his hand,is it then true(or maybe i didn’t understand this(law taking in hands)thing in the right way?
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Taking Law In Your Own Hands In The Light Of Narration In Seerat Ibn Hasham
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Ahadith and/or separate incidents and individual reports are not a source of any law because of certain inherent limitations with their nature of transmission, they are to be understood in the light of Quran and Sunnah.
– Following points might help you understand a bit about the Hadith Science:
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– To understand Hadith as a Source of Islamic Epistemology, please see:
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– To understand the Hadith Compilation and Collection, please see:
And in comparison, the narrations transmitted through Seerah Books require even more intensive scrutiny as compared to narrations transmitted in Saha-Sitta, as they lack even the basic controls put in pace by Muhaddeseen for authenticity of a narration, especially when a narration involves an ethical problem which goes against Quran and Sunnah. That is why Historical Narrations are divided in two distinct categories i) the ones transmitted as established history, and ii) the ones transmitted through akhbar-i-ahad
For fruther details on historical narrations, please refer to the video below:
Having said that, there were a few of such incidents reported in History where it appears that some people were killed by Muslims by taking law in their own hand, however, this is not the case. When seen in the light of Quran, there was a stage in Prophet’s (Sws) Dawah, where after itmam-e-hujjah on people of the book, their blood was declared Mubah, and some of those narrations were miscontrued by traditional scholars as punishment of Blasphemy. Those narrations and the concept itself has been discussed at length in the following lectures, please do watch them (all the three parts):
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