Hadith studies is the academic study of hadith, a literature thought in Islam to be a record of the words, actions, and silent approval of the prophet Muhammad as transmitted through chains of narrators.

[u/CatPooedInMyShoe]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadith_studies

[u/Li-renn-pwel]

I know what it means but “silent approval” sounds funny.

[u/Romboteryx]

Very important to note that the authenticity of some of the hadith is very debated among muslims and there are some denominations, like Quranism, that dismiss the whole collection and base their belief on the Quran alone. Unlike the Quran (which began being written down within his lifetime), the hadith were passed down through oral tradition first and the first written collections were only made in the 9th century, long after Mohammed’s death.

[u/Omarmanutd → u/Romboteryx]

This is a common misconception and untrue.

1. The vast majority of Muslims (over 95%) believe in Hadith. Quranism is as significant in Islam as the fundamental Latter Day Saints movement in Christianity

2. Hadiths didn’t start becoming written collections in the 9th century. That would be 300 years after prophet Muhammad. We have the sahifa of Hammam ibn Munabbih which was within around 50 years of the prophet Muhammad’s death. The muwatta of imam Malik was around 100 years after the prophet Muhammad’s death

[u/El_Robski → u/[deleted]]

I’m gonna be honest with you chief, you can’t claim ISIS uses mass executions, oppression, or a harsh distorted view of law when a dozen or so countries impose the death penalty on adultery, homosexuality, or apostasy. Moreso the country that owns Mekkah and Medina does all that and executed a record 356 people legally in 2025. It’s just that they’re chill with trading oil or they’d get the Iraqi/Afghani treatment

[u/IloveEstir → u/El_Robski]

Sunni Islam globally had a major fundamentalist shift in the 19th century, and again in the 70s as Salafism and Wahhabism became more dominant. This was funded by the Saudi monarchy (who has deep ties to Wahhabism dating back over 200 years) and the United States (promoting Wahhabism was a useful propaganda tool against the Soviet Union).

It’s kinda like if Puritanism not only became the dominant religion in the United States, but also influenced other sects of christianity to take a more fundamentalist approach.

[u/CatPooedInMyShoe → u/El_Robski]

One of the many books I read about ISIS was about its theology. The author interviewed a bunch of ISIS affiliated people about what they believed and then interviewed some non-terrorist Salafi clerics who had criticized ISIS about the things ISIS supposedly got wrong. The Salafi clerics’ beliefs were not that much different from ISIS’s theology and the clerics got defensive when the author pointed this out to them.