The Role of Sunnah and Classical Scholarship - Dr. Jonathan Brown

Bayan Claremont visiting faculty member Dr. Jonathan Brown discusses the role of sunnah in interpreting the Qur'an through Hadith literature and the revival of classical scholarship.

[@ercaner_buzbey]

Knowledge of man is temporary, to transmit it to next generation one need to preserve language, and Brother Brown really made it clear how the old scholars of Islam did this hard work for us. God bless all of them. May God give brother Brown a better insgiht and a better power to explain things

[@farahsiddique6702]

MAY THE PEACE MERCY AND BLESSINGS OF ALLAH ALMIGHTY ALWAYS BE WITH YOU AMEEN

[@projectnoonindia]

Great way for us sitting on the other side of the globe in rural India to learn from such learned scholars of our tradition. Keep uploading more such videos! Jazakallah

[@ikw7280]

Serious question, Br. Mohammed, How many times per day do you pray? If you do that is. Br. Mohammed, much of what you said does not make any sense at all. And no i'm being genuine here and i could be skeptic too, but in my opinion you probably lost a debate to some liberal online or sam gerrans aside liberalism made a lot of sense to you than the Quran itself. Which is emotional than intellectual.

[@HajjiJesus]

Mohammed Jamil Simple question here, how do you know When it is Hajj if you don't follow Quran? I will answer for you. You cannot.

[@HajjiJesus]

Mohammed Jamil I dont waste my time with useless claims like that. Salam

[@palestinosyrious9452]

So close still so far. What a deluded soul. Without sunnah and Hadith-litterature, our beloved prophet Muhammad saw has absolutley no function in our lives and faith. What a tasteless faith. What a fool.

[@HajjiJesus]

Palestino Syrious Dont waste your time. Some characters, specially the ones that believe in fictions like petra are not worthy of a second of any ones's time.

[@ot4579]

Thank you for the wonderful lecture and for the important topic, God bless you 🙏🏼🇸🇦

[@oceanflyer7078]

i wish i had heard this kind of lecture 10 years ago. But I guess i haven't met any scholars that could explain the knowledge of sunnah as eloquently and convincingly as Dr Brown did in this lecture.

[@jonnsmith180]

Ocean Flyer He's full of shit. Poor excuses for fabricated fairy tales.

[@zafthedon]

Great lecture

[@turkbrostube]

amazing lecture... eye opening points.. may Allah bless the Shaykh

[@corpuscallosum9355]

‏جزاك الله خيرا

[@FreeFalasteen4ever]

Professor Brown made a mistake between 9:40 and 9:50- he said سبيل ربكم However the correct words are سبيل ربك The full verse is below [النحل:125] ادْعُ إِلَىٰ سَبِيلِ رَبِّكَ بِالْحِكْمَةِ وَالْمَوْعِظَةِ الْحَسَنَةِ وَجَادِلْهُم بِالَّتِي هِيَ أَحْسَنُ إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِمَن ضَلَّ عَن سَبِيلِهِ وَهُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِالْمُهْتَدِينَ

[@yvryvryvr73]

Salam. Very informative.

[@engineered.mechanized]

Highly informative talk. He dealt with many of the issues that modern day muslims may have going across in their minds all the time.

[@markjapan4062]

Islam is Satan Allah is Satan u can prove it many ways

[@farahsiddique6702]

SUBHANALLAH THANK YOU

[@BASEL353]

ياليت ترجمه للمقطع

[@abdelbaasit1]

10:55-15:27 That story was powerful. 😢

[@marwanthe2oooth]

You're right, that was powerful

[@ammadkhan7228]

The question remains: what if the traditions we have are wrong? If a person follows the instructions of the Quran can he be misguided? Establish regular prayers- does the number actually matter or the regularity and sincerity? The Quran states that Allah has "perfected your religion today" so if it's perfected why do we need these madhabs?

[@user-wu2sg1nn3n]

I want see the video for doctor jonthen Translate into arabic please

[@sararahmane64]

I wish if you have translate it to Arabic language. .really I will be thankful

[@rehabhanafy7033]

الحمد لله

[@farahsiddique6702]

SUBHANALLAH

[@bayanchicago]

Let us know your thoughts below.

[@LamiaeJahjah]

great lecture we want more of this scholar if possible. jazakum allah kul khair

[@bayanchicago]

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[@turkbrostube]

Are you aware of any more lectures from Dr. Brown that tackle issues of abandoning hadith and misinterpreting the Quran???

[@aishanafees8755]

Bayan Claremont amazing

[@ercaner_buzbey]

I had a question, if someone presents others that even Quran is transmitted like Sahih Mutavâtir Hadith to these "Quranists" and force them to say "You either should accept hadith with Quran or you should abandon it all together to act in a consistent way" would it be appropriate or dangerous?

[@Shiraz687]

Can anyone please recommend book on prophet Muhammad sunna.

[@aishanafees8755]

Insight Curiosity. The sealed nectar

[@holdshiftt2run308]

The guy who wrote the sealed nectar would smack this dude in the video if he met him.

[@MoeMoe-bx9bp]

Insight Curiosity. Enjoy this link to life of Muhammad kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJbGo5Vueqtla7s

[@ercaner_buzbey]

"The Meadows of the Righteous" or "Riyazüs Salihin رياض الصالحين" it is the known best complation of hadith till this time. For his life you either look for Martin Lings or Karen Armstrong

[@Shiraz687]

@@aishanafees8755 jazakallah

[@muhibullahtanha770]

سبحان الله

[@sabrinashahab795]

It is true Muslim Elite class are westernized and when the West is puritan , they are puritans and when the West is libertine , they are liebertine too . But it is also true that classical Ulemas who actually developed the Shariah , they were also influenced by their surroundings eg Roman , Persian and Bynzentine Culture . They were also product of their time .

[@dashohoxha]

Everybody knows that the Quran is unchanged and unchangeable, and as such it is a trusted source and a point of agreement among all the muslims. This cannot be said for hadiths. In the past lots and lots of hadiths had been shown to be just lies invented by people. Nowadays the same can happen again through missinterpretation and using them selectively to justify one's own interests. So it is normal that people differ on how to interpret them and how much of them to trust. Between the people that do not trust 90% of them and the people that do not trust 99% of them there is not much difference. But there is a problem when a person or a group of people claim that they have the right interpretation and everyone else is wrong. They just show their ignorance and arrogance.

[@dashohoxha]

I like very much your translation/interpretation of the opening chapter of the Quran. (You see? We have a common point of agreement.) For the rest... The ignorant and arrogant people always claim that they are right and everyone else is wrong. The true scholars always say: I think that I am right, but I may also be wrong, God is the most knowledgeable. I prefer to align myself with the true scholars.

[@dashohoxha]

***** We mostly agree (although I don't understand the word Fitrah -- Google Translate thinks that it is an Indonesian word). But I think that the interpretation is a personal thing for everybody, regardless of how he reached at this interpretation (for example listening to what the majority of people/scholars say, or listening to just another person, or thinking with his own mind about the meaning). I also think that two people may seem to have the same interpretation, but how they actually understand it may be different. I believe that this is a normal thing of life, because everybody is unique and different from the others. Peace for you too!

[@jonnsmith180]

Dashamir Hoxha You are incredibly uneducated to think such. It's a bunch of fairy tales and BS to justify Mad Mos greed.

[@bayyinahawesome415]

Dashamir Hoxha The guy who was criticizing you has probably deleted his comments! Well done brother.

[@ercaner_buzbey]

That is why the science of hadith exist, to purify the forged ones and find the genuine haidths, but as here brother Brown clearly expains one can not read the book without knowing the meanings of the words inside of it to know them one must look at a dictironary of some kind and hadith was in the end is the true dictionary for the Quran. We are not living at times of Muhammed SAV, he and everyone around him is dead, but their understanding of the Quran lives through the language of Arabic, meaning of words. Normally if you let a language to evolve in natural manner for example French you will find words like "Laic" which is now known as "Separation of Church and State", but without historical records one really can't know what it trully meant when it was first used. That word was actually a Latin word used by early Catholic Clerics to humiliate nonclerics about their statues before God (at least that was their assumption), look what it means today. IF the first scholars of the Muslim community were to get a blind eye for it, for example we could either look at the Quran and try to decipher it like Ancient Egyptian Hyrogliphs, the way of hadith prevented that from happening. Today what makes us more unifible than Christians is this tend to understand Quran as every other Muslim on the Earth besides ourselves, because we have one book which prevents us from varieting between eachother too much. While Christians have at least three kind of book (Hebrew, Greek and Latin) than expecially after reformation it multiplied like crazy now their sects are like ant or wasp colonies which ever of them goes to another colony without the cause to become one of them, they kill it. Today same road to separation and atomization shown us by the Devil, so we can deviate from eachother and destroy ourselves. No matter what the every problem can be solved through effective communication and to do that we need to have common ground to understand eachother. Islam is our language and preservation its language is really imprtant than any other activity (or cihad) about religion because if we loose our common ground on how to communicate eachother.

[@straightpath7795]

18:35 We have diversified in this Quran all kinds of examples for the people, yet the human being is most argumentative. 18:54 Allah says all kinds of examples for people. 25:30 And the Messenger said: “My Lord, my people have deserted this Quran.” Who are the Messengers pbuh people? There is hadith that I've seen so many people use that says the opposite it says people will go by only the Quran and forget the hadiths. 3:7 He it is Who has revealed the Book to you; some of its verses are decisive, they are the basis of the Book, and others are allegorical; then as for those in whose hearts there is perversity they follow the part of it which is allegorical, seeking to mislead and seeking to give it (their own) interpretation. but none knows its interpretation except Allah, and those who are firmly rooted in knowledge say: We believe in it, it is all from our Lord; and none do mind except those having understanding. I watched a you tube clip went mention names but he was talking about marry a girl who hadn't had puberty yet. Allah does explain in the Quran the age of marriage. But people with sickness in their hearts make their own interpretation based on hadiths that are sahih. May Allah protect children from the sickness in some people's hearts This world is a test Or do they have partners who decree for them a system which has not been authorized by God And if it were not for the word already given, they would have been judged immediately. Indeed, the transgressors will have a painful retribution. Hadith collectors were not authorized by Allah. The Quran is the best ahadith Allah put it in the Quran. But Shaytan wishes to lead them astray.” [An-Nisaa’, 4:60] Shaytan tells you can't understand the Quran you need hadiths. But he wants to take you off the straight path Allah says Quran 41:44] If we made it a non-Arabic Quran they would have said, "Why did it come down in that language?" Whether it is Arabic or non-Arabic, say, "For those who believe, it is a guide and healing. As for those who disbelieve, they will be deaf and blind to it, as if they are being addressed from faraway." Say: It is Allah Who guides to the truth,” [Yunus, 10:35] May Allah guide and give us knowledge I fear Allah on judgement day I won't commit any kind of shirk.

[@linkup901ify]

Do you know Arabic? Hadith rejecters often don't know Arabic and make up interpretations that the Arabic never allows. J. Brown said it clearly, you go Quran only and there is no Islam. No sect says read the Quran and Quranist only appeared around 120 or so years ago exactly when western academia started to focus on Islam and especially the Hadith. Forget all this, actual watch the video, he refutation was sound. May Allah guide us, Amin.

[@margahe9157]

He talks like a Bible -Scholar!

[@sabrinashahab795]

What do you with false hadeeths , also Shariah cannot be compared to ordinary laws , because laws change , Sunnah cannot be greater than the Quran because Muslims did not make any attempt to preserve the hadeeth , this was done long after the death of Prophet Muhammad

[@holdshiftt2run308]

No attempts to preserve ahadith? Yes, actually the salaf (including the sahaba) and the ulema of the khalaf did their best to preserve ahadith. Just because you are ignorant on the issue does not mean we reject it altogether.

[@GardeniaInc]

Fyi orientalis 200 years ago used to say that..hadith until now being learn, memorize and inherited..through sanad(chain of narration link to prophet muhd saw)even can prove and recongnize level of hadith..sahih,hasan,etc..hadith prophet muhd>sahaba>tabiin>tabitabiin>ulama(current)sunnah and hadith pass down also there is criteria and knowledge to learn hadith and al quran..call science of al quran and hadith..many laws too normally they memorize al quran..as muslim its compulsory to learn types of hadith mazhab etc bcs if not disharmony will happen just bcs of lack knowledge while the function actually for benefit people..lets learn more..oh ya..many prestigous universities or islamic institution expertise in islamic knowledge example darul hadith,al azhar,uni madinah etc also most scholar and ulama normally and learn from many ulama and places..in many field..cant find it in google??simple ilm(knowledge in islam)inherited(ijazah,must from certified ulama),learn until understand practice it based on needs..easy thing to do ask any muslim ulama where did they get their knowledge??google??nope.they can prove it easy..

[@abdulmuktadirmiah8814]

After 1400 years miss western has become a scholar of modernism and she thinks she knows Islam she has not even studied Islam

[@Gog3453]

The Quran COMMANDS THE RIGHT AND FORBIDS THE WRONG ahkiy

[@ToxicBalloon360]

Dear God, this comment section is cancerous.

[@donalddavid1262]

The only bright spot in the Quran is Isa El Masih-- Ruh Allah, Kalmat-ullah, Zakiyya ( the sinless one ), the blessed one in this world and the world to come. the one who could alone create life, heal the sick, and raise the dead. He is the holiest prophet of Islam whose name should only adorn the shahada. He is the nearest one to God and the one who is coming back to judge this world. The Quran however fails to recognize the deity of Christ and is a tirade against Christian theology and beliefs.

[@ikw7280]

Quote the complete signs (ayaht) that you twisted up there. Let see

[@sabrinashahab795]

Here comes another Missionaries . Muslims may be sometimes misguided , but they are not as misguided as the Christians . First they take up the pagan Roman garb to garner acceptance in the Roman World , now they work with the Western Elites and Capitalists to promote Western way of life which the exact opposite of what Jesus taught .

[@holdshiftt2run308]

Do you know the tafsir for the term "ruh ullah"? ALlah does not call Isa Kalamat Ulla. Kalamat ullah is the Quran itself. Christ is not a deity. Christ is a prophet. We don't have the concept of "holy prophets." THe prophets are just prophets who are revered and are servants and messengers from Allah.

[@ercaner_buzbey]

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[@gumgomgim]

He is obviously knowledgeable and intelligent, so I doubt that he can truely believe in the hadith. Somethings' wrong about this guy