Presenting the Sunnah to the Qur’an

Abstract

The mission of the Prophet Muhammad, the originator of the second source of the Islamic religion, the Sunnah, did not end with the preaching of the Holy Qur'an. He was also the first practitioner of the divine truths he communicated. The practice in question has been transmitted theoretically and practically from generation to generation and has remained up-to-date in every period. Throughout the historical process, the Sunnah has been in complete conformity with the Qur'an, and these two main elements have served as the enlightening lamps for Muslims, with their provisions complementing and explaining each other. However, the troubles and crises experienced in Islamic societies were sometimes attributed to the transfer of power. The fact that the narrations were predominantly and systematically written after the Prophet brought up the claims that they were unreliable, which paved the way for the longing for the bliss of the century and the effort to return to the original. Unfortunately, this understanding has led some Muslims to conduct tafsir studies independent of the Sunnah. At this point, the vital importance of the moderate view, which abolishes the sunnah and adopts all narrations transmitted without any discrimination as sahih sunnah, in an effort to understand the Qur'an with pure reason, based on evidence and scientific criteria, emerges. The Prophet Muhammad, whose unique position is mentioned by Allah Almighty dozens of times in the Qur'an, is indisputable. In its own words, the Sunnah reminds those who knowingly lie about it of their place in Hell and warns that the worst thing is to attribute to the Messenger of Allah something he did not say and to engrave it on him. We wholeheartedly state that supporting and transmitting the narrations is a great responsibility. This study reveals the importance of the Sunnah from another angle and is based on the thesis that the test of the accuracy of the narrations that interpret, allocate, or limit the verses is done with the Qur'an itself, and that the commandments of the religion cannot be fully understood without the commandments of the Sunnah.