Evolution in the concept of sunnah during the first four generations of muslims in relation to the development of the concept of an authentic Hadīth as based on recent western scholarship

• Main Author: Duderija, A.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Brill Academic Publishers 2012
• Subjects: B Philosophy (General); BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/9602/1/00012605_90456.pdf; http://eprints.um.edu.my/9602/

The aim of this article is to trace the evolution in the meaning of the concept of Sunnah prior to its classical definition, which largely confluences it with the concept of an authentic( ṣaḥīḥ) Ḥadīth as defined by the classical Ḥadīth sciences. This article will first describe the semanico-c...