I would start with a clarification regarding "traditionalist understandings" of Starements and so forth. Some people with think that if a particular Sahabi understood an Aya to mean something, then that is the only meaning. This can be the case, but most of the time, it is not necessarily the case.So, if one reads in Tabari ou lbn katheer that ibn abbas understood it this way and so and so understood that way,then there is a real possibility that both understandings are correct and that both were relaying what came to mind. there may be room linguistically for even more understandings. So . the scholars were never really restrictive in understanding as long as it was linguistically and contextually correct ans as long as the understanding did not contradict the rest of the message..
No comments:
Post a Comment