Hadith Rejection and the “Quran-Only” Argument
Description: In this Q&A session after the lecture on "Quran on Psychological Trauma" in Genk, Belgium, Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan takes on a question circulating heavily on social media: should Muslims follow the Quran alone and treat everything written by people with suspicion.
He explains that this debate was already raging in the first, second and third centuries of Islam, that hadith were not invented three hundred years later but gathered three hundred years later after circulating in scattered form, and that hadith scholars themselves never claimed one hundred percent exactness. Then he turns the question around. The sequence of your salah is not in the Quran, nor in any single hadith. So where did it come from, and why does a Muslim in Morocco pray exactly like a Muslim in Indonesia fourteen centuries later? Close description
He explains that this debate was already raging in the first, second and third centuries of Islam, that hadith were not invented three hundred years later but gathered three hundred years later after circulating in scattered form, and that hadith scholars themselves never claimed one hundred percent exactness. Then he turns the question around. The sequence of your salah is not in the Quran, nor in any single hadith. So where did it come from, and why does a Muslim in Morocco pray exactly like a Muslim in Indonesia fourteen centuries later? Close description