Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Ash'arite Traditionist-Theologians and Reading Ambiguous Hadiths on Divine Attributes. |
| Authors: |
Noor, Umar Muhammad1 umarmnoor@usm.my, Hasbiyallah1 Hasbiyallah@uinsgd.ac.id |
| Source: |
Religious Inquiries. Dec2023, Vol. 12 Issue 2, p219-234. 16p. |
| Subject Terms: |
*ASHARITES, *RATIONALISM, *RELIGIOUS literature, *HADITH, ISLAM & society |
| Abstract: |
Modern Salafi narrative always depicts the Ashꞌarites as a group of rationalists with insufficient mastery of hadith sciences. It is claimed that lack of knowledge in hadith sciences is the reason behind their misguided interpretations of religious texts on divine attributes. This study aims to examine this notion by tracing Ashꞌarite tendencies among hadith authorities and exposing their approach to anthropomorphic expressions in hadiths. It gathered data from sources that deal with ahādīth al-ṣifāt (prophetic traditions regarding divine attributes), providing a qualitative analysis of the data. This article argues that hadith experts espoused Ashꞌarism since its emergence in the tenth CE/fourth AH century forming a group referred to as Ashꞌarite traditionist-theologians (muḥaddith-mutakallim). Originating from Iraq and Khorasan, the school gradually expanded to various cities in the Islamic world before it reached the golden era during the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods. When dealing with anthropomorphic expressions in hadiths, Ashꞌarite traditionist-theologians appeal to the tawqīf principle to eschew extreme literalism. They proved that the application of tafwīḍ and taꞌwīl in reading those texts does not contradict the way of al-salaf al-ṣāliḥ (righteous predecessors). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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