El-Amin Caliphate wrote:Herskerstad wrote:
I am aware, though those are the codified collections. Their sources are projected to be considerably older, but the metric of cherrypicking comes through all the same. The numerous problems that come from it is that you and the quran under a tree, without the wealth of Islamic scholarship and history becomes the arbiter of Islam. This means everyone, including the caliphs, the institute that Muhammad himself put into place whom we know a great deal about in terms of their Sharia had it wrong. And if they got it wrong, nobody got it right. Those are his closest companions. This is a position that would flunk any systematic class and leave one perilously unqualified on the subject.
And it's not that I disagree that the Islamic systematic are considerably weaker than contemporary or predated religions both from a point of transmission and from certainly an ontological and epistemological side, but in terms of Islamic jurisprudence there is little doubt that the outgrowth and practices, with expected variations at least had some codified approach. If they then all got it wrong, then you need some text, something from the era that proves them wrong and it can't be the source that they all utilise, because their proximity to the events and oral traditions would leave them better disposed to judge for such.
I never said the Sahaba (RA) were wrong, nor have I said that all scholars are wrong. Nor do I think this.
Then you have to give some justification as to why you cherry pick from the scholars work that goes beyond the metric of you and the quran under a tree. Any ancient order, any scholar which disputes them early. Heck any writ of the age. Something tangible and not as fleeting as your own interpretation of the events.