HADITH AND SUNNAH-Ideals & Realities

“And if all Hadith is given up, what remains but a yawning chasm of
fourteen centuries between us and the Prophet? And in the vacuity of
this chasm not only must the Qur’an slip from our fingers under our
subjective whims, ? for the only thing that anchors it is the Prophetic
activity itself —- but even the very existence and integrity of the Qur’an
and, indeed, the existence of the Prophet himself become an
unwarranted myth.”
The essays comprising this book were selected to serve a long felt need
for a comprehensive collection of writings on various aspects of Hadith
and Sunnah for the non-academic reader. These essays were written by
eminent Muslim scholars over a period of four decades and published in
various scholarly Islamic journals, many of them inaccessible now. By
bringing them together in one volume, the book will serve the reader to
get a holistic picture of the true role of Hadith and Sunnah as an integral
part of Islam and the Islamic Shari’ah.