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Taking Correct Approach Towards Hadith Literature
Whenever a prohibition is given clearly in a Hadith or is open to interpretation, I think like this:
Allah has not taken responsibility for Hadith but only for Quran and Sunnah. If Hadith was not there, will I still find a certain thing prohibited? If my answer is no, then I simply don’t look into that Hadith anymore. I only seek in hadith some additional knowledge about what is already given to us in the Quran and Sunnah.
For example, if there was no Hadith, is keeping beard a fard through Sunnah or Quran? Definitely not given anywhere. So I simply reject that interpretation of Hadith that keeping beard is fard.
Is this the correct approach? What could add to this approach?
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