Qur'anic Verse
Al-Jathiyah 45:6
"In what discourse (hadith) after God and His signs will they believe?" A rhetorical challenge to disbelievers; reading it as targeting the later Hadith genre specifically is anachronistic on the majority view, though some Quranist readings take it as an implicit rejection of Hadith as a category.
Revert Way rendering, in the style of early public-domain English translations (cf. Pickthall 1930)
Content discussing this verse
- 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.