Hadith Night - Shaykh Taha Abdul Basser and Mufti Muntasir Zaman
The Relationship Between the Qur'an and Hadith
Yahya related to me from Malik that he heard that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "I have left two matters with you. As long as you hold to them, you will not go the wrong way. They are the Book of Allah and the Sunna of His Prophet." [Muwatta of Imam Malik]
How do ahadith, the rigorously researched reports detailing the statements and actions of the Messenger ﷺ, relate to the Qur'an? What should we understand about the ways in which the two sources dovetail and influence one another? What do we make of claims that the Qur'an alone is sufficient as guidance for a Muslim?
Selected Readings from the Musnad of Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal
Sh. Taha will be reading selected passages from the Musnad of Imam Ahmad, a famous collection of hadith organized by the founder of the Hanbali madhab (school of thought). Join us as we sit together and take benefit from the timeless words of the Messenger ﷺ.
Speaker Biographies
Mufti Muntasir Zaman
Mufti Muntasir Zaman was born in Queens, New York where he completed the memorization of the Qur'an. He then traveled to Ontario, Canada to begin the elementary years of the Alimiyyah program. Thereafter, he continued his studies in South Africa where he completed the Alimiyyah, Iftaa, and Hadith programs respectively. He then travelled to the U.K where he received an M.A in Islamic Studies. Mufti Muntasir writes articles at https://ahadithnotes.com/
Shaykh Taha Abdul Basser
Taha bin Hasan Abdul-Basser is a researcher and teacher of Islamic ethics and law who has acted as a shari`a compliance reviewer, examiner and consultant to investment funds, investment banks, retail banks, financial advisories, legal advisors and other for-profit and not-for-profit entities since 1998. He was lead contributor to the Harvard Islamic Finance Information Program's database software on Islamic financial ethics and jurisprudence, independent study course instructor ("Principles of Islamic Finance") at Harvard Business School, Senior Tutorial Advisor at Harvard University's Department of Near Eastern Language and Civilizations and the Harvard Islamic Society Chaplain (1999-2013).
He received his Bachelors (A.B.) in the Comparative Study of Religion from Harvard College, a Master's (A.M.) in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University and is an ABD from the same department. In addition to his father (with whom he began the study of standard Arabic as a child), he has studied the traditional Islamic disciplines with teachers from the Sudan, the Yemen, Tanzania and Bahrain. He has received traditional licenses (ijazat) in Islamic ethics and law, Prophetic traditions (hadith) and other disciplines from several notable scholars, including Sh Nizam Ya`quby. External Event Url
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