Abstract:

The Holly Book and the Sunnah has an exceptional importance for every Muslim as an integral part of life. The efforts made by the believers who have the sensitivity to question the compatibility of even an ordinary everyday behavior to these two basic sources in order to behave according to the provisions of any verse or hadith that they have read or heard are admirable. However it is a known fact that narrations may be subject to disputes for their authenticity on one hand and their interpretations on the other hand. In this context, the hadith referring to the utterance “Allah has created Adam in the image of His own”, stands out as one of the examples of narration whose authenticity as well as its content is discussed in each period. When we consider the criticisms of sanad (significant and trusted statement) and text about the narration in question, we see that meaning and narration and narrating hadiths detached from context come up as the most important of the causes of conflicts. The narration in the form “Allah has created Adam in the image of His own” can be regarded as a genuine example of how a narration that is sound in terms of technical hadith criteria can be subject to dispute.

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