Defense of the Sunnah
Articles that weigh doubts raised against the Prophetic Sunnah, Sahih al-Bukhari and its transmitters by the standards of hadith criticism, and series that answer them in order.
Series · 2 parts
The first Mizan article explains how the hadith critics examined both the chain and the text of a report, and turns their method into practical questions for weighing contemporary doubts about the Sunnah and Islamic history.
The second Mizan article applies the series' method to the claim that the city's early name Iliya proves the sanctity of al-Aqsa to be a later invention, separating the history of names from the evidence for the mosque's virtue.
Series · 7 parts
The opening summary in the Why I Did Not Become Shia series, introducing the book's central questions about Shi'i origins, the alleged Jewish connection, and whether the sect belongs within Islam.
The second summary in the Why I Did Not Become Shia series, centered on the article's argument that Twelver Imami doctrine compromises tawhid al-rububiyyah by assigning divine powers and unseen knowledge to the Imams.
The third summary in the Why I Did Not Become Shia series, addressing the article's critique of Twelver Imami doctrine in divine names and attributes, worship, prophecy, angels, and claims of Qur'anic alteration.
The fourth summary in the Why I Did Not Become Shia series, presenting the article's critique of Twelver Imami portrayals of the awaited Mahdi and contrasting them with Sunni expectations.
The fifth summary in the Why I Did Not Become Shia series, centered on the article's claim that Twelver Imami doctrine condemns the overwhelming majority of the Prophet's companions.
The sixth summary in the Why I Did Not Become Shia series, focusing on taqiyyah as presented in the article as a central and far-reaching doctrine within Twelver Imami thought.
The seventh and concluding summary in the Why I Did Not Become Shia series, focusing on the article's presentation of the Twelver Imami position toward the wider body of Muslims.
Intellectual and Creedal Doubts
A hadith-defense article arguing that the famous rib narration is sound in transmission, harmonious with the Qur'an, and misread when modern ideological categories are imposed upon it.
A comprehensive response to modern attacks on the famous hadith about women's 'deficiency' in intellect and religion, arguing that the report is sound, context-bound, and repeatedly misread through emotional and ideological filters.
The article shows that justice in the Islamic conception differs from absolute equality: the Shari'ah gives each their due according to their nature and function. It compares this with the theory of CEDAW, which imposes a formal equality that can lead to unjust results.
Responses
A methodical defense of the famous hadith on female political rule, addressing objections tied to Abu Bakrah, hadith transmission, historical examples, and modern political assumptions.
A concise rebuttal of the modern claim that Imam al-Bukhari's Sahih was shaped by political agendas rather than by independent hadith scholarship.
A methodological response to the popular objection that because al-Bukhari was human and liable to error, Sahih al-Bukhari cannot be given the special authority traditionally recognized for it.
A forceful argument that the slogan of accepting only what 'matches the Qur'an' is itself contrary to the Qur'an, because the Sunnah is revelation, explanation, and a binding source of law.
A methodological response to attempts at attacking a hadith about Abraham in Sahih al-Bukhari by isolating a scholarly objection from its proper hadith-critical context and its full answer.
An analysis of statements in a recently published contemporary book, refuting its main doubts about the recording of the Sunnah and showing the unsoundness of its reasoning, the weakness of its quotations, and the collapse of its method.
A concise study on the authority of the Prophetic Sunnah, arguing from the Qur'an, hadith, and the practice of the early generations that the Sunnah is revelation, proof, and the second source of Islamic legislation.
A sermon affirming that the Prophetic Sunnah is revelation from Allah, binding in belief and practice, and preserved through the reverence, obedience, and scholarly care of the earliest generations.