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Four of the seven '[[User:Flynnjed/Sandbox#FGM in the Hadith|FGM hadith]]', report Muhammad favouring FGM. | Four of the seven '[[User:Flynnjed/Sandbox#FGM in the Hadith|FGM hadith]]', report Muhammad favouring FGM. | ||
Two of these ('[[User:Flynnjed/Sandbox#The fitrah is five things.2C including circumcision|The fitrah is five things]]' and '[[User:Flynnjed/Sandbox#When the circumcised parts touch each other|When the circumcised parts touch]]') are included in ''both'' sahih Bukhari and sahih Muslim. Both hadith compilations are considered wholly authoritative. Moreover these two hadith are also some of the best-supported hadith in these compilations. | Two of these ('[[User:Flynnjed/Sandbox#The fitrah is five things.2C including circumcision|The fitrah is five things]]' and '[[User:Flynnjed/Sandbox#When the circumcised parts touch each other|When the circumcised parts touch]]') are included in ''both'' sahih Bukhari and sahih Muslim. Both hadith compilations are considered wholly authoritative. Moreover these two hadith are also some of the best-supported hadith in these compilations. '[[User:Flynnjed/Sandbox#When the circumcised parts touch each other|When the circumcised parts touch]]' is a 'tacit approval' in that it reports Muhammad referring in passing to FGM without him expressing disapproval of it - this is understood to count as his approval. | ||
The two other hadith that report Muhammad's attitude towards FGM ([[User:Flynnjed/Sandbox#A preservation of honor for women|'A preservation of honour for women]]' and [[User:Flynnjed/Sandbox#Do not cut .22severely.22|'Do not cut severely']]) are not generally considered as ''sahih'', but ''hasan'' (good) or ''daif'' (weak). | The two other hadith that report Muhammad's attitude towards FGM ([[User:Flynnjed/Sandbox#A preservation of honor for women|'A preservation of honour for women]]' and [[User:Flynnjed/Sandbox#Do not cut .22severely.22|'Do not cut severely']]) are not generally considered as ''sahih'', but ''hasan'' (good) or ''daif'' (weak). | ||
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A seventh hadith ('[[User:Flynnjed/Sandbox#One Who Circumcises Other Ladies|One who circumcises other ladies]]') is also compiled by Bukhari and is thus ''sahih.'' It is not of interest doctrinally, but contains useful historical, sociological and linguistic information (see '[[User:Flynnjed/Sandbox#Islamic sources|FGM before Islam: Islamic sources]]'). | A seventh hadith ('[[User:Flynnjed/Sandbox#One Who Circumcises Other Ladies|One who circumcises other ladies]]') is also compiled by Bukhari and is thus ''sahih.'' It is not of interest doctrinally, but contains useful historical, sociological and linguistic information (see '[[User:Flynnjed/Sandbox#Islamic sources|FGM before Islam: Islamic sources]]'). | ||
Doctrine cannot be generated from a weak hadith | Doctrine cannot be generated from a weak hadith alone. However Dr. Yusuf Al-Qaradawi (a central figure affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood)<ref>[https://www.terrorism-info.org.il/Data/pdf/PDF_11_046_2.pdf Portrait of Sheikh Dr. Yusuf Abdallah al-Qaradawi, senior Sunni Muslim cleric, affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood] - The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (2011)</ref> decrees that a weak hadith can be used if: | ||
Setting aside doctrinal questions the hadith - whether daif, hasan, or sahih - all provide solid evidence that some form of FGM was practiced by Muhammad's followers, and by Muhammad's native tribe, the Banu Qarayza. | # the ''hadith'' not be very weak; | ||
# the ''hadith'' be within the scope of an authentic legal principle that is applied and accepted in either the Qur’an or Sunnah; | |||
# its weakness, not authenticity, be realized when applying it. | |||
For example the information that Muhammad considered a form of FGM excessively sever can be taken from 'Do not cut severely', even assuming it a daif hadith, since it is not in contradiction with the stronger FGM hadith and does not contradict the Qur'an. | |||
Setting aside doctrinal questions the hadith - whether daif, hasan, or sahih - all provide solid evidence that some form of FGM was practiced by Muhammad's followers, and by Muhammad's native tribe, the Banu Qarayza. Whilst the Quran and the Sunnah are the prime sources of doctrine, where an issue is nor resolved by these there exist secondary heuristics ([[daleel]]) for elucidating doctrine - Ijma (consensus of scholars or the Sahabah); Qiyas (analogical deduction); Ijtihad (the opinion of individual Sahabah); Istihasan (juristic preference and discretion); Urf (the custom of people throughout the Moslem world); Istislah (the interest and welfare of Islam and Moslems) and Amal (customs and practices of the people of Medina). | |||
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Mohammed successfully demanded that his followers abstain from pleasurable and/or beneficial things such as eating pork, drinking alcohol, interest in debt, the public display of women’s faces, instrumental music, and art that depicts the human form, the easy mixing and socialisation of men and women – how much more willingly would his followers have abandoned a practice that is harmful, and that must be distressing for loving parents to perform and witness? | Mohammed successfully demanded that his followers abstain from pleasurable and/or beneficial things such as eating pork, drinking alcohol, interest in debt, the public display of women’s faces, instrumental music, and art that depicts the human form, the easy mixing and socialisation of men and women – how much more willingly would his followers have abandoned a practice that is harmful, and that must be distressing for loving parents to perform and witness? | ||
==== There is no consensus of scholars on FGM ==== | |||
==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||