al-Muaaradat al-Fikriyya al-Muasira li-Ahadith al-Sahihayn

al-Mu‘aradat al-Fikriyya al-Mu‘asira li-Ahadith al-Sahihayn: Dirasa Naqdiyya (Contemporary Intellectual Objections to the Hadiths of the Two Sahihs: A Critical Study) is a contemporary Sunni polemical and methodological study by Moroccan scholar Muhammad bin Farid Zaryuh al-Muaaradat al-Fikriyya …+1. The book examines, classifies, and refutes modern intellectual critiques leveled against the prophetic traditions recorded in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim al-Muaaradat al-Fikriyya …+1.

Background and Scope

The work originated as a doctoral dissertation submitted to Ibn Tofail University in Kenitra, Morocco, under the academic supervision of Dr. Hassan al-Alami al-Muaaradat al-Fikriyya …+1. Zaryuh composed it while residing in the Moroccan Rif, gathering sources from book fairs and modern publications that addressed critiques of the Sahihayn al-Muaaradat al-Fikriyya …. In defining the scope of his inquiry, the author notes that previous academic studies either handled individual thematic issues in isolation—such as hadiths concerning women, the unseen, reasons for revelation, or the natural sciences—or suffered from methodological weaknesses al-Muaaradat al-Fikriyya …+1.

Zaryuh defines the "contemporary" period under study as spanning approximately a century, beginning with the thought of Muhammad Abduh (d. 1323 AH / 1905 CE)—whom he identifies as the first major Islamic thinker after whom modern waves of objection to the Sahihayn arose—up to the time of writing al-Muaaradat al-Fikriyya …. He uses "intellectual objections" (al-mu‘aradat al-fikriyya) to denote rationalist challenges mounted by groups sharing systematic ideologies, whether originating from within the Islamic tradition (such as modernist rationalists, Twelver Shi‘ites, and Quranists) or from outside it (such as secularists and Enlightenment modernists) al-Muaaradat al-Fikriyya ….

Structure

The work is organized into an introduction (tamhid), two theoretical parts, an extensive practical part divided into eight chapters, and a conclusion al-Muaaradat al-Fikriyya …+1:

• Introduction (Tamhid): Covers the conceptual definition of terms delineating the research scope, the contemporary problematization of prophetic hadiths, and the overarching rational principle shared by opponents of Ahl al-Sunna when dismissing transmitted texts al-Muaaradat al-Fikriyya ….
• Part One (al-Bab al-Awwal): Surveys contemporary factions attacking hadiths in the Sahihayn, critiquing their foundational doctrines and literature across four chapters: Twelver Shi‘ism (al-Shi‘a al-Imamiyya), the Quranists (al-Qur'aniyyun), Secularists (al-‘Almaniyyun), and Islamic Rationalists (al-‘Aqlaniyyun al-Islamiyyun) al-Muaaradat al-Fikriyya …+1.
• Part Two (al-Bab al-Thani): Analyzes the alleged scholarly grounds invoked by modern critics across four chapters: claims of documentary defects in the compilation and transmission of the Sahihayn, the belief that solitary reports (ahad) are strictly conjectural (zanniyya), the assumption that al-Bukhari and Muslim neglected textual critique (naqd al-mutun), and appeals to earlier scholarly critiques of specific narrations al-Muaaradat al-Fikriyya ….
• Part Three (al-Bab al-Thalith): The applied section of the book, which systematically addresses contemporary objections across eight thematic chapters al-Muaaradat al-Fikriyya …+1:
  1. Theology (al-Ilahiyyat): Critiques of narrations on divine attributes al-Muaaradat al-Fikriyya ….
  2. Quranic Exegesis (al-Tafsir): Narrations touching on exegesis and the conformity of Umar ibn al-Khattab's statements with Quranic verses al-Muaaradat al-Fikriyya …+1.
  3. Eschatology and the Unseen (al-Ghaybiyyat): Narrations on the afterlife, the Antichrist (al-Dajjal), and related matters al-Muaaradat al-Fikriyya …+1.
  4. The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ: Narrations on sensory miracles, the opening of his chest, and prophetic infallibility al-Muaaradat al-Fikriyya …+1.
  5. Other Prophets (Baqi al-Anbiya'): Traditions discussing past biblical and prophetic figures al-Muaaradat al-Fikriyya ….
  6. Natural Sciences (al-Tabi‘iyyat): Hadiths perceived to conflict with natural laws, medicine, or astronomy al-Muaaradat al-Fikriyya …+1.
  7. Women (al-Mar'a): Narrations concerning women's status, creation, and adult suckling (rida‘ al-kabir) al-Muaaradat al-Fikriyya …+1.
  8. Isra'iliyyat: Hadiths in the Sahihayn alleged by modern critics to be fabricated Judeo-Christian interpolations al-Muaaradat al-Fikriyya …+1.

Method

Zaryuh employs an inductive-analytical methodology (al-manhaj al-istiqra'i al-tahlili) to trace contemporary publications, academic works, and media broadcasts al-Muaaradat al-Fikriyya …+1. In evaluating specific objections, he adopts dialectical argumentation (al-jadal) and systematic elimination (al-sabr wa-l-taqsim), breaking down each objection into its underlying premise and evaluating it through classical legal theory, hadith sciences, and modern experimental and human sciences al-Muaaradat al-Fikriyya …+1.