Hadith
Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim
'Umar's statement from the pulpit that a "verse of stoning" had been revealed, and that he feared people would later say "we do not find [it] in the Book of God" — an internal, canonical admission that material some early Companions believed Qur'anic did not survive into the mushaf. The traditional resolution (naskh al-tilawa duna al-hukm: abrogation of recitation without abrogation of the ruling) is logically coherent but empirically unfalsifiable.
Content discussing this hadith
- Research Paper
Islam: History, Authority and the Development of Islamic Tradition
A historical-critical review of the Qur'an and Hadith as sources of religious authority in Islam, distinguishing established fact, scholarly consensus, majority and minority opinion, disputed claims, and theological interpretation at every step.
- Article
Islam: A Reader's Guide to the Qur'an, Hadith and Early Islamic History
A plain-language companion to Revert Way's academic review of the Qur'an and Hadith: the same evidence, sources, and arguments, with every technical term and historical figure introduced on first use.