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[KavkazUzel] Collections of hadiths and generally accepted works of Islamic scholars should be included in the list of religious literature that cannot be classified as extremist materials, said the Coordinating Center of Muslims of the North Caucasus after the publication of the collection "Sahih al-Bukhari" was banned.
| Sahih al-Bukhari is a hadith collection and a book of sunnah compiled by the Persian scholar Muḥammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari around 846. Alongside Sahih Muslim, it is supposedly one of the most valued books in Sunni Islam after the Quran. |
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on August 31, Ramzan Kadyrov demanded to reconsider the decision to include the collection of sayings of the Prophet Muhammad "Sahih al-Bukhari" in the list of extremist materials. In his opinion, the court "turned to incompetent expertise", while "Sahih al-Bukhari" is "a reliable source of the biography of the Prophet Muhammad, which Muslim scholars recognize as second in importance after the Holy Quran."
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Political scientists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" expressed polar opinions about the likelihood that Kadyrov's demand would be satisfied. Sergei Zhavoronkov believed that the decision to ban would be canceled in the near future, Alexei Malashenko doubted the possibility of this.
The federal list of extremist materials includes a specific edition of Sahih al-Bukhari, and not the collection itself, while in Russia there is another translation of the collection, the muftiate of Dagestan pointed out on September 1.
The claims of the security forces to the books of the publishing house "Umma", including the collection "Sahih al-Bukhari" concerned not only footnotes, notes, prefaces or afterwords, experts found extremism in the actual statements of the Prophet Muhammad, said the lawyer of the arrested director of the publishing house Marat Ashimov. He pointed out that, in particular, we are talking about statements in which the prophet praises the Muslim religion, some experts find in them "a call for superiority on the basis of religion."
The Coordinating Center of the Muslims of the North Caucasus proposed expanding the list of religious literature that cannot be classified as extremist materials.
"We consider it necessary to recognize the original commentaries and interpretations of the Koran, collections of hadiths (...) and their comments, as well as generally accepted works of Islamic scholars of four legal schools (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i and Hanbali madhhabs) as not subject to expert evaluation. Muslims consider these works canonical and part of the religion of Islam,” Interfax quoted the center as saying late on the evening of September 3.
On November 23, 2015, Vladimir Putin signed a law that prohibits the recognition of the texts of the Bible, Koran, Tanakh and Kanjur as extremist. Analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" assumed at the time that the law would not affect the law enforcement practice established in the country.
The statement of the Coordinating Center became part of the resonance from the inclusion in the federal list of extremist materials of the publication "Sahih al-Bukhari," published by the publishing house "Umma" in 2007.
"The lack of clear explanations for this decision has led some believers to believe that they are trying to ban the second most important source of Islamic law for Muslims, which caused understandable and justified indignation," the statement says.
Muftis of the North Caucasus call on "authorized bodies" to cooperate with religious organizations and public institutions to develop amendments and additions "to the existing mechanisms of legal response to cases of discovery of extremist materials made using quotations from sacred texts for believers."
In addition, they consider it expedient to create an expert theological council at the federal level for the professional evaluation of religious literature, the agency writes. This statement was not published on the website of the Coordinating Center as of 14.14 Moscow time.
Recall, the publication "Sahih al-Bukhari" (Summary) "Authentic traditions from the life of the Prophet Muhammad, may Allah bless him and welcome him: A clear statement of the hadiths" Authentic collection," compiled by Imam Abu al-Abbas Ahmad Abbind al -Latif al-Zubaidi, and translated from Arabic by Abdullah Nirsha, (5th edition, corrected), published in 2007 by the Umma publishing house, is included in the federal list of extremist materials by decision of the Laishevsky court of Tatarstan dated December 9, 2021. On July 5, the Supreme Court of Tatarstan approved this decision.
At the same time, the surahs, verses and quotations from the Koran contained in the publication were not recognized as extremist, follows from entry number 5302 in the list of extremist materials, which is posted on the website of the Ministry of Justice. The entry indicates that the publication was listed on 25 August.
"Sahih al-Bukhari" is one of the six main Sunni collections of hadiths (Kutub as-sitta). The hadiths were collected by the medieval Islamic theologian Muhammad al-Bukhari after they were transmitted orally for two centuries, according to the Islamic Encyclopedic Dictionary.
The inclusion of "Sahih al-Bukhari" in the list of extremist materials means that a specific edition of the book, a certain translation is prohibited, while other editions and the original text of the collection of hadiths are allowed, Islamic scholars interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" explained. At the same time, hadiths, like the verses of the Koran, can be attributed to sacred texts, but the court does not think so, said Doctor of Law Leonid Syukiyainen.
"Ayats and hadiths are a sacred text in the original language - Arabic. And it is prohibited [by the court] to translate into Russian. According to the court, the translation is not a sacred text," he said.
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