Contemporary Issues in Hadith Research 5: What should we understand from the verse: "The judgment belongs only to Allah"?
The phrase "Judgment belongs only to Allah" is present in three verses of the Quran: one in Surah al-An'am and two in Surah Yusuf. The Khawarij used these verses as a slogan against Ali ibn Abi Talib to achieve their political goals. More recently, these verses have been used as evidence, again in the form of slogans, by the Qur'aniyyun school that emerged in India in the second half of the 19th c...

A Critique and Evaluation of Narrations Concerned with the Reco
It is an undeniable fact that writing plays a significant role in passing information on to future generations. However, recording information is not sufficient on its own for reliable transfer, as the soundness of information is not so much related to whether it has been recorded or not, but rather is connected with the reliability of the transmitters. As a matter of fact, there are many written...

Prophet Muhammad's Relationships with the People of the Book
Introduction Before the advent of Islam, there were polytheists, Sabeans, Zoroastrians, Hanifis, Christians and Jews living in the Arabian Peninsula. No one particular group was dominant on the peninsula. While Christianity consisted of opposing parties, the Jews were a religious community that had not been chosen among the Arabs. Of the neighbors of the peninsula at the time of the advent of Isl...