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The article strives to expose the attitude of a western grown Muslim scholar Shahab Ahmad (1966 –2015 AD) to the 2nd major Islamic source and its sciences. The question to be answered here is what kind of approach, hostile or supporting, Shahab had towards knocked his corpus regarding his modern conceptualization of Islam, but his Ḥadīth sense remained undiscussed yet. This paper encircled all his treatment while using the analytical research approach. Shahab seems faa great opposition of Ḥadīth terminology in the way of proving his lifeargument of ‘satanic verses’. Shahab put Muḥaddithīn (the traditionists) just like as “adjusters” and “editors” of chains and “underminers of text”. His excessive usage of deficient and incomplete chains of transmission to prove his argument, his acceptance of omitted chains and declaration of complete chains as ‘fabricated’, his ‘selfassumptions’ in the chains all depict his illoeuvre, it becomes apparent that Shahab Ahmad criticized almost the entire process of Ḥadīth Sciences which shows his hostility and less knowledge of Ḥadīth. Being taught in secular institutions of the West, Shahab Ahmad had a hostile attitude towards Ḥadīth sciences.
Muhammad Iqbal Awan, Dr. Hafiz Khurshid Ahmad Qadri. (2020) Shahab Ahmad’s Hostile-Intellectual Approach towards Ḥadīth Sciences, Journal of Islamic & Religious Studies, Volume-5, Issue-2.
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