احادیث سے استنباطِ احکام میں تعارض ،اسباب،شرائط اوررفع تعارض کے مناہج (علامہ ظفر احمد عثمانی ؒ کےمقدمۃ اعلاء السنن کاناقدانہ جائزہ)

Abstract

The Prophetic narrations have been documented as authorized and legitimate source united exclusively with the Quran, it became an imperative portion forming the Islamic characteristics and constructing up the Muslim civilization. However, there are a handful of hadiths seems to contradict each other and also with some facts or other texts which give a glimpse of this contradiction can be a negative impact on the authority of hadith as a source of Muslim civilization. At once, it would raising polemics and creates doubts on tacit revelation’s status.  The Hadith scholars (Muhaddithin) have proved scholarship of hadiths as a driving force for constituting the Islamic laws. They delineated methods to resolve all conflicts between the prophetic narrations. These methods are al-Nasikh (abrogation), al-Tarjih (outweighing), al-Jam‘a (reconciliation) and Tawaquf (stopover). Allam Zafar Ahmad Uthmani is one of the sub-content orthodox Islamic scholars who provided a detailed pensive work on this aspect. This research deals with Allama Uthmani’s view about the solution of this conflict among the prophetical narrations.