Sunna Notes Volume 3: The Binding Proof of the Sunnah

Abbreviations 
Chains of Transmission – Dedication 
Foreword: e Proofs of the Sunna
by Muḥammad Saʿīd Ramaḍān al-Būṭī 
e Sources of the Law 
e Meanings of Sunna 
Fiqh Levels of the Sunna 
Neither Disregard Nor Exaggerate 
Muslims Who Denigrate the Sunna 
Muslims Who Denigrate Prophetic Medicine 
e Inferiority Complex 
Anti-Sunna Infiltrators 
Ways to Undermine the Sunna 
e “Qur’ān-Only” Fraud 
Assault on Ḥadīth Science Targeting Islam 
e Binding Proof of the Sunna
adapted from ʿAbd al-Ghanī ʿAbd al-Khāliq’s Ḥujjiyyat al-Sunna 
Preliminaries 
{e Decision Rests with Allah Only} 
{And Obey the Prophet} 
Conditions for Using Ḥadīth as Proof 
Differences in Relying upon Ḥadīth Transmission 
e General Evidentiary Force of the Sunna 
Chapter : e Prophet’s Immune State Dictates
that Ḥadīth is Revelation 
Chapter : Divine Approval of the Companions’
Conformity with the Sunna 
Chapter : Proofs from the Noble Qur’ān for the
Sunna as Evidence 
a) Verses that Indicate the Obligatoriness of
Believing in the Prophet e 
b) Verses that indicate that the Prophet e elucidates
the Book and explains its wisdom in a manner
that carries authority on the part of Allah Y 
c) Verses that indicate the obligatoriness of obeying
the Prophet r in absolute terms 
d) Verses that indicate the obligatoriness of following
and imitating him e in whatsoever issues from him 
e) Verses indicating that Allah I has tasked the Prophet e
with following and conveying what is revealed to him 
Chapter : Proofs from the Noble Sunna for the
Sunna as Evidence 
        e : 
 1. Allah I has revealed to him e the Qur’ān and other than it 
 2.Whatever legal rulings he e has expounded and stipulated
are the expositions and stipulations of Allah Himself 
 3. It is impossible to understand the laws and ordinances
of Islam from the Qur’ān alone 
 4. Sunna-based practice is Qur’ān-based 
 5. e Umma in its entirety and without exception has been
ordered to accept his e words, obey his commands and
prohibitions, and follow his Sunna 
 6.Whoever obeys him e and holds fast to his Sunna obeys
Allah I and follows guidance 
 7.Whoever disobeys him e and rejects his sayings has
disobeyed Allah, followed misguidance, and perished 
 8. Faith and belief remains incomplete until one follows
all that he e brought 
 9. Nothing but truth comes out of his e blessed mouth 
10. e best guidance of all is his e guidance 
 e ḥadīth “I have le among you two matters…” 
11. Anything that he e did not himself bring but which
people innovate aer him according to their whims
and caprice, or to serve their lusts, is an innovation 
 e          -
         
 ’      
 e      ,  ,
         
Chapter : It is Unfeasible to Act Solely on the Basis of the Qur’ān 
Ibn Ḥajar’s Commentary on the Ḥadīth
of Islām,Īmān,Ihsān  .
1. Al-Bukhārī’s Chapter-Title and First Narration: Book of Īmān 
2. Al-Bukhārī’s Second Narration: Book of Tafsīr 
3. Muslim’s First Set of Narrations 
4. Muslim’s Second Set of Narrations 
5. Muslim’s ird Narration 
6. Ibn Ḥajar’s Commentary on al-Bukhārī’s Chapter-Title
and First Narration as well as the Variants 
e Difference Between Islām and Īmān 
e Complementariness of Islām and Īmān 
Muslim’s Chains and the Variance of eir Texts 
e Reason is Ḥadīth Took Place 
A Note of Benefit on the Qadariyya Heresy 
A Warning: Confirmation vs. Mere Belief 
A Warning: ere is No Sight of Allah I in the World 
Critique of Ibn ʿArabī’s Interpretation 
A Note of Benefit: e Questioner Already Knew 
A Note of Benefit: ʿĪsā u Asked Gibril u about the Hour 
Two Warnings: Child-Bearing Slaves – e Word “Lord” 
A Warning: Knowledge of the Unseen 
A Note of Benefit: Cognizance and Knowledge 
Warnings: Gibril’s Form–Didacticism– “Mother of the Sunna” 
Indexes 
Index of Qur’ānic Verses 
Index of Narrations 
Bibliography 