This post is a follow up to a continued Twitter conversation. I post here as Twitter is often too terse to communicate effectively, and that can unnecessarily, through brevity, create an implied tone of hostility that is not intended. @ReasonOnFaith not selective, its based on chains of transmissions. This is hadith 101. — UMA1R_ MAL1K […]
Selecting and Rejecting Early Islamic Historical Accounts
This is a follow up to a Twitter conversation. My additional thoughts follow. The Qur’an doesn’t speak to many important topics, like the number of daily prayers, the method of prayer, nor the crime of rape — as a few of many, many examples. Muslims end up going to traditions and historical biographies to fill […]