The Ahle Hadith Movement: Origins and Evolution in the South Asian Perspective

Abstract

Basically, Ahl al-Hadith movement did not emerge as a political movement. Rather, this movement started and developed as a guide-to-guide life on the basis of the Quran and Hadith by uprooting all the superstitions and shirk-bidat that had infiltrated Muslim society. Since the early days of Islam, the Quran, and Hadith have been considered the two main sources for solving the problems of Muslim society. Later, Greek and other philosophies were nurtured by Muslim thinkers and this led to a tendency to interpret the Qur'an and Hadith through reasoning and judgment. ---