A Teacher of Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhāb

Muhammad Hayāt al-Sindī and the Revival of Ashāb al-Hadīth's Methodology

Bibliographic Data

ID12192552
AuthorsBasheer M Nafi (corresponding author), Basheer Nafi
Year2006
Volume13
Issue2
Pages208-241
Publication date2006-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueIslamic Law and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0928-9380 • E-ISSN: 1568-5195
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/156851906776917552
OpenAlexW2003417453
LanguageEN
Citations received8

Muhaammad Hayāt al-Sindī, the most eminent hadīth scholar in the Hijazi city of Madina in the first half of the eighteenth century, was one of the teachers of the controversial Najdī reformist Muhammad b. 'Abd al-Wah-hāb. Scholars of early modern Islamic thought disagree about al-Sindī's influence on Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhāb. In this article I present a brief study of the life and works of Hayāt al-Sindī, focusing on his approach to hadīth as a primary source of fiqh , his call for ijtihād , and his opposition to the legacy of the madhhab s and to the divisions caused by partisan adherence to the madhhab . Although he was influenced by the Hanbalī Ibn Taymiyya, Hayāt al-Sindī's outlook and methodology are closer to those of the classical ahl al-Hadīth . Like Hayāt al-Sindī, Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhāb was critical of the established madhhabī system, disregarded the instruments of usūl al-fiqh , and appears to have been irreverent to the legacy of fiqh

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