Articles by Dr. Parvez

Sunnate Nabavi aur Hamara Tareeqa e Fikr o Amal Author: Dr. Yusuf alQarzawi, pages 272. This book seeks to explore the corruption and manipulation of Hadith literature in its various forms and then goes on to suggest ways and means to interpret aHadith to suit contemporary needs; and as expected of the author, it adopts an approach that borders on liberalism. He says that there are three things which have been done to corrupt aHadith: 1. Exaggerations (gulu) 2. False attributions to invent bidaat 3. Incorrect derivations by naïve people And that three things need to be checked while studying any Hadith: 1. Authenticity 2. Context 3. Concurrence with nass He explains that meticulous care should be taken about the authenticity of the Hadith if it involves deriving legal issues from it, and the same care need not be taken with fazail/raqaiq/azkar… but there’s a limit to this.  The learned scholar proceeds to debunk almost all aHadith that deal with fazail and raqaiq. We do know that many