Khalil bin Ibrahim Mulla Khatir
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Khalil bin Ibrahim Mulla Khatir (d. 1445 AH / 2023–2024 CE) was a Syrian Hadith scholar and university professor who resided in Medina and authored works on the Prophetic tradition, including al-Sunna al-Nabawiyya Wahi.
Early life and education
Born in the city of Deir ez-Zor in Syria, he received his foundational education by studying the Quran in local traditional schools (makatib) and completed his primary, intermediate, and secondary schooling in his hometown. Among the prominent scholars under whom he studied and graduated in Deir ez-Zor were Muhammad Sa'id al-Mufti and Husayn Ramadan.
He later moved to Damascus to enroll in the Faculty of Sharia at Damascus University, from which he graduated. He subsequently pursued postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Usul al-Din at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, where he obtained his doctorate in Hadith and its sciences.
Career and academic work
After working in teaching, he moved to Saudi Arabia in 1386 AH to teach across the institutes and colleges of Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, serving as an assistant professor of Hadith in the Faculty of Sharia. He later took up residence in Medina.
His scholarship centered on Hadith methodology and the defense of the Prophetic Sunna. Among his focused studies is al-Isaba fi Sihhat Hadith al-Dhubaba, in which he analyzed the transmission chains, jurisprudential rulings, and medical dimensions of the fly hadith while responding to objections raised against it, as well as al-Hadith al-Mutawatir, dedicated to the study of mass-transmitted reports.
Death
He died in 1445 AH (2023–2024 CE).
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al-Sunna al-Nabawiyya Wahi (The Prophetic Sunna is Revelation) is a treatise dedicated to establishing that the authentic Sunna of the Prophet Muhammad constitutes divine revelation from God. Prepared as an abridged monograph, it articulates that God granted two categories of revelation: the recited, inimitable Quran, and the Sunna as non-recited revelation conveying divine meaning.