Ahl-i Hadith

Ahl-i Hadith (Urdu: اہلِ حدیث, people of hadith) is a Salafi reform movement that emerged in North India in the mid-19th century CE from the teachings of Sayyid Ahmad Shahid, Syed Nazeer Husain and Nawab Siddiq Hasan Khan. It is an offshoot of the 19th-century Indian Tarīqah-i Mūhammadiyyāh movement and tied to the 18th-century traditions of Shah Waliullah Dehlawi and the Wahhabi movement.

Its adherents profess to hold the same views as those of the early Ahl al-Hadith school.

They reject taqlid (following legal precedent) and favour ijtihad (independent legal reasoning) based on the scriptures.

Today, the movement shares doctrinal tendencies with the Hanbali school prevalent in the Arabian Peninsula, and many of its members have identified themselves with the Zahiri school of thought.

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  3. ↑ Brown, Daniel W. (1999). Rethinking Tradition in Modern Islamic Thought. Cambridge University Press. pp. 29–32. ISBN 978-0-521-65394-7. Ahl-i-Hadith [...] consciously identified themselves with Zahiri doctrine.