“Whoever Imitates a People Becomes One of Them”: A Hadith and its Interpreters
Abstract This article examines the canonization of the Prophetic hadith, “Whoever imitates a people becomes one of them,” which became the keynote expression of tashabbuh (reprehensible imitation), a Sunni doctrine commonly invoked by religious authorities to distinguish Muslims from non-Muslims. Fi...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Brill
2018
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Islamic law and society
Jahr: 2018, Band: 25, Heft: 4, Seiten: 359-426 |
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Hadith
B Ethics B Abū Dāwūd B Jihad B Ibn Taymiyya B non-Muslims B Najm al-Dīn al-Ghazzī B Interpretation |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Abstract This article examines the canonization of the Prophetic hadith, “Whoever imitates a people becomes one of them,” which became the keynote expression of tashabbuh (reprehensible imitation), a Sunni doctrine commonly invoked by religious authorities to distinguish Muslims from non-Muslims. First, I analyze how the Partisans of Hadith transmitted and classified the hadith, highlighting the pivotal role of Abū Dāwūd (d. 275/889) in canonizing the tradition. I then trace the divergent trajectories of its interpretation over time, especially the glosses of two brilliant Damascenes: Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328) and Najm al-Dīn al-Ghazzī (d. 1061/1651). This study draws not only from hadith commentaries but also from treatises on law, ethics, and Sufism, illustrating how hadith interpretation takes place in multiple Islamic literary genres. A detailed appendix catalogues the collections of hadith that transmit the tradition; compares different narrations in order to date and locate its circulation; and visually maps its isnād networks. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5195 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Islamic law and society
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685195-00254A01 |