A Review of the Debate between Batalavi and Chakrhalavi
Description
In November of 1902, a debate took place between Muhammad Hussain Batalavi and Abdullah Chakrhalavi on the importance and position of the Holy Quran and the hadith. Maulavi Muhammad Hussain who belonged to the Ahl-e-Hadith sect of Islam argued that the hadith of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) were an absolute and final authority in Islamic jurisprudence and that even the Holy Quran was to be judged and studied in light of these narrations. On the other hand, Maulavi Abdullah, a proponent of the Ahle-Quran sect of Islam suggested that the hadith were nothing more than a heap of unreliable,...
ISBN(s)
1848800657, 9781848800656