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Journal of Islamic Studies 2005 16(2):147-176; doi:10.1093/jis/eti130
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‘An Innovation from the Time of the Bani Hashim’: Some Reflections on the Taslim at the End of the Prayer*

Yasin Dutton

University of Edinburgh

This essay explores the relationship between hadith and fiqh. It does so by considering one issue, that of the taslim at the end of the prayer, where the two-taslim judgement of the majority of the Sunnis (and the Zaydis and Isma{Arabic left hamza}ilis amongst the Shi{Arabic left hamza}a), supported by numerous Prophetic ahadith, is at odds with the one-taslim position of most of the Malikis (and also the Ithna {Arabic left hamza}Ashari Shi{Arabic left hamza}a and the Ibadis), which is clearly based on different considerations. After reviewing a representative cross-section of the Hadith and fiqh literature on this point, we examine the implications of this issue for a fuller and more accurate understanding of the development of Islamic law and the associated collections of Hadith, as well as indicating a need to reconsider the now widely accepted views on the same propounded by Goldziher and Schacht.


 An earlier version of this article was presented at the conference on ‘Hadith: Text and History’ held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 19–21 March 1998.


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