Hadith Rasool is not the source of religion.
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman said
Sunday, June 6, 2021
In an interview with Al Arabiya TV, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said that in order to legislate, we should focus on the Qur'an instead of hadith. Hadiths (instructions of Hazrat Muhammad Salim) cannot be used in legislation. He said that interpretation of Qur'an according to modern times is necessary.
He said that the hadith of the Prophet (peace be upon him) is not the source of religion. Explaining his point, he said that news alone could not be made a 'source of law'.
He says that if there is a clear command from the Qur'an in a chapter or if the Sunnah is continuous, then it is fine, otherwise "matters will be settled through Ijtihad".
This statement of Prince Muhammad bin Salman is a clear deviation from Wahhabism which Saudi Arabia has been propagating till now. He said that now there would be no punishment for stoning, flogging and killing of apostates and homosexuality.
It should be noted that during the reign of Muhammad bin Salman or earlier rulers in Saudi Arabia, many intellectuals and writers were killed for criticizing the rulers and many have been languishing behind bars for many years.
After the interview of Muhammad bin Salman, Sheikh Al-Azhar wrote in support of him that jurisprudential views are not sacred and unchangeable at all, the sanctity of jurisprudential views creates intellectual stagnation. Ancient jurisprudential issues and fatwas were in fact attempts at ijtihad and renewal of jurists in a particular period. On April 27, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman gave a lengthy interview to the Saudi channel Al-Arabiya in which he detailed the Veteran 2030 framework for social and economic reform, which was launched in 2015.
In this interview, he talks about the implementation of a new modern Islamic law, as opposed to the ongoing Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia. He said that all Muslim jurists and intellectuals emphasize the need for ijtihad in the light of Qur'an and Sunnah. So I don't think I'm saying anything weird.
Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia began in the 18th century when the teachings of Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahab began to be used by the rulers and then spread throughout the world through petrodollars. Until a few years ago, no one in Saudi Arabia could have imagined such a thing.
This statement of Prince Salman will prove to be a turning point in Islamic history. And this one statement has strangled the Wahhabism of the whole world because the basis of Wahhabism is the Qur'an and Hadith. They do not follow the ijtihad of any imam. Hanafi which is based on the Ijtihad of Imam Abu Hanifa and his disciples. That is why the people of Al-Azhar University in Egypt have supported the statement of Prince Salman, which is a unique thing in itself. Because the Egyptian University of Al-Azhar and Saudi Arabia are like the Catholic and Orthodox Christians ... Understandably, the Wahhabis, Salafis around the world look to Mecca in matters of Islamic law, and the rest of the sects look to Al-Azhar University.
Prince Salman has said a very big thing. If a religious scholar had said such a thing in Pakistan, he might have been killed by now. He has not only explicitly denied the importance of the hadiths, but has also questioned the authenticity of Bukhari and Muslim.
This is the first step of reformation within Islam. Reformation in Christianity took place about four hundred years ago. Because the world of Islam is still two or three hundred years behind the West, so now it is the turn of Islam. But because the media is so fast now, the internet, social media, cable, etc., the process of change may be faster.
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