The Orientalist impact on Al-Jabri's writings on the Prophet's Sunnah and the method of the hadith scholars

Abstract

This research paper dealt with the position of the Moroccan modernist thinker, Muhammad Abed Al-Jabri, on the honorable Sunnah of the Prophet, by presenting some of the intellectual contents related to the Sunnah, such as the codification and reliability of the Sunnah, the conditions for authentic hadith, the method of criticism of the hadith scholars ... and other ideas that he put forward in his many books, or Included in his intellectual project in the criticism of the Arab mind, and his contemporary reading of the Holy Quran; Then We compare it with the theses of the orientalists that dealt with such opinions and ideas related to the Sunnah of the Prophet.

The research concluded, after extrapolation, analysis, criticism and comparison, to the great congruence and clear influence between the opinions of Al-Jabri and those of his predecessors, whether in terms of the research methods applied in the innovative reading of hadith, and the mechanisms of dealing with the major books of hadith as the heritage of the nation, or in terms of the positions and opinions that reached to it as a result of those westernization readings adopted by Al-Jabri.