Interaction with Prophetic Tradition: A Review of al-Qaradawi’s Thought

As a scholar who was raised by Islamic movement (harakah) Muhammad Yusuf al-Qaradawi has a rich experience in interacting with the Prophetic tradition, he also has more direct contact with the public until have a comprehensive understanding of the situation in the community. Hence, not be surprised if in the hadith assessment his highlight more about the process of getting appropriate recognition of a tradition. According to him the imbalance between the validity of sanad with matan resulted from errors using the framework to interact with the hadith. The postulate of Hadith is final, without it Quran can not be well understood. Thus, this paper discusses al-Qaradawi, his attitude and method to al-Sunnah and how to interact with it. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n1p547