Is the naming of the chapters of the Qur'an based on divine command or on independent legal reasoning?
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The questioner:
I ask Allah to do you good. Your Eminence, the father, the questioner asks: What is the stronger position regarding the naming of the chapters of the Qur'an? Is it based on divine command or on the independent legal reasoning of the Companions?
The Shaykh:
Some are based on divine command, and some are the result of the independent legal reasoning of the Companions. For example, the naming of Surat al-Baqarah is mentioned in the hadith. It is also mentioned in the hadith that it is named thus. So, there are chapters whose names are established by evidence, and there are chapters for which no evidence for their names has been transmitted, but the Companions exercised independent legal reasoning in naming them. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you. Your Eminence, the father, the questioner says:
The Shaykh:
If you had consulted the books on the principles of Qur'anic exegesis, you would have known this. Yes.
I ask Allah to do you good. Your Eminence, the father, the questioner asks: What is the stronger position regarding the naming of the chapters of the Qur'an? Is it based on divine command or on the independent legal reasoning of the Companions?
The Shaykh:
Some are based on divine command, and some are the result of the independent legal reasoning of the Companions. For example, the naming of Surat al-Baqarah is mentioned in the hadith
Surat al-Baqarah, likewise Surat al-Imran
سورة البقرة كذلك سورة ال عمرانThe presenter:
May Allah reward you. Your Eminence, the father, the questioner says:
The Shaykh:
If you had consulted the books on the principles of Qur'anic exegesis, you would have known this. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [1928- 4717] هل تسمية سور القرآن توقيفي أم اجتهادي؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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