A current of thought whose owners see sufficiency with the Holy Qur'an alone to clarify the provisions of Sharia and issues of religion, and reject the Sunnah of the Prophet and see it as not a revelation but a human diligence of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Who are the Qur'anists? And why do they reject the Sunnis?

The episode (2023/3/15) of the program "Mawazine" shed light on what is known as the Qur'anic current, addressing their ideas and motives for denying the Sunnah, their political goals, as well as their places of spread.

The former dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies at Al-Azhar University, Muhammad Salem Abu Assi, defines the Qur'anists as a group or individuals who refer only to the Holy Qur'an, and deny the Sunnah altogether, a current that has roots and history since the Prophet's era. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) prophesied that there are some people who will deny the Sunnah of the Prophet, as he (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "A man is about to lean on his couch and talk about a hadith from my hadith, and he will say between us and you the Book of God Almighty, what we found in it of what is permissible and what we found in it of forbidden forbidden."

Abu Assi describes the Quranists as a marginal and individual current that was not a doctrine or a public school, and is concentrated especially in India and Europe, and there is no general current among them at the level of the Arab world, adding that some modernists or secularists adopt this current.

He continued that the Qur'anists adhere ostensibly to the Qur'an, while adhering inwardly to the denial of the Qur'an, and that their goal is to eliminate Islamic law, because whoever denies the Sunnah denies the statement, and there are many verses in the Holy Qur'an that did not specify the significance in them, but the Sunnah of the Prophet identified this significance, in his saying Almighty {and God permitted the sale and forbade usury}, the Prophet (peace be upon him) is the one between the analyzed sales and those forbidden, and he is the one between usury and the varieties of usury in the hadith.

The former dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies at Al-Azhar University believes that "whoever denies the Sunnah is a denier of the Holy Qur'an and a denier of the entire divine revelation."

Regarding the delay in writing down the hadith, which some see as a good reason for questioning the hadiths, the researcher in the principles of Islamic jurisprudence, Abdullah Al-Qaisi, talks - in his intervention within the "Mawazine" program - about real cognitive reasons and other emergency political reasons, pointing to many questions raised in the issue of memorizing hadiths, including why everything issued by the Prophet (peace be upon him) was not recorded, and why the hadiths were not written down to the same degree as the Holy Qur'an.

While Ahmed Snobar, associate professor of hadith sciences at "May 29 University" in Turkey, attributed the reasons for the delay in writing hadith to the fact that the novel in the first Hijri century was oral, because there were few writing tools, but he explains that when Europeans went to write history, they said that documentation is by writing. These orientalist ideas reduced the value of oral narration, although there were factors that helped to memorize hadiths, most notably the power of memorization among the Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) and among people in general.

When writing entered Muslim countries and spread, some scholars believed that memorization was more important than writing, which applies to novels and tales transmitted from ancestors, according to Snobar.

Political Recruitment

On the political employment of the Qur'anists, the head of the Qur'an and Sunnah Department at Qatar University, Abdul-Jabbar Saeed, confirms in his intervention that this team is sponsored by the nation's opponents and enemies, as evidenced by the large number of conferences held in the West in particular, in addition to the fact that some of the flags of this current reside in Europe and America, and receive instructions from the nation's opponents, and their goal is to destroy Islam in the hearts of the sons of the nation and remove religion from its components, to remain at the tail of dependence on colonialism. The conspiracy is very clear on this issue, he said.

Snobar agrees with Said's view on the political employment of the Qur'anists, and adds that their motives for denying the Sunnah are linked to an intellectual issue that many of the hadiths of the Prophet are among the reasons for the backwardness of Muslims, stressing that in the fourth and fifth centuries AH, Cordoba was one of the greatest Muslim countries that spread thought in all of Europe, and he studied the books of Imam Bukhari and Muslim.

He denies the Qur'anists their emphasis on the idea that the adoption of hadiths and heritage is the cause of the backwardness of Muslims, while ignoring the real causes of this backwardness, including political and economic reasons and colonialism that destroyed scientific and educational institutions that remained firmly established in the hearts of Muslims for a thousand years.