Sunna Notes 2

Sunna Notes - Studies in Hadith and Doctrine
Volume 2
The Excellent Innovation in the Quran and Hadith by Shaykh Gibril Fouad Haddad with Ibn Rajab al-Hanbalis

Nowhere in the field of Islamic jurisprudence is a blatant tampering with the truth felt more than in the redefinition of Sunna and bid`a. The understanding of the pious Salaf such as Imam al-Shafi`I for these terms is arrogantly cast aside. Their crystal-clear distinction: Bid`a is of two kinds: praiseworthy innovation and blameworthy innovation is being abandoned, while in their place, later, controversial figures are invoked as more representative of the Salaf. New fangled theories have worked their way into the discourse on right and wrong and even worse entire generations of Muslims have been weaned on these perversions of the truth and go into the world parroting the terms Sunna and bid`a without ever understanding them. Choice victims for this campaign of disinformation in our time are English-speaking Muslims, especially new Muslims. They learn a few expressions then, coiffed with their new hat of condemnatory phrases, go out and blast away at other Muslims.

The purpose of this book is to do away once and for all with these perilous misconceptions and to present over 160 proofs for the Sunni understanding of Sunna and bid`a as it was and continues to be set forth in classical, moderate, mainstream Islam according to the Sunni Salaf and Khalaf including the Four Schools of Fiqh.