عن الْمِقدامِ بنِ مَعْدِي كَرِبَ رضى الله عنه أن النبيَّ ﷺ قال: «ألا هل عسى رجُلٌ يَبْلُغُه الحديثُ عَنِّي وهو مُتَّكِئٌ على أريكته، فيقول: بينَنا وبينَكم كتابُ الله، فما وجدْنا فيه حلالًا استَحْلَلناه، وما وجدْنا فيه حرامًا حرَّمناه، وإنَّ ما حرَّمَ رسولُ الله ﷺ كما حرَّمَ اللهُ». وفي لفظ أبي داودَ: «ألا إني أوتيتُ الكتابَ ومثلَه معه».
Al-Miqdām ibn Ma‘dī karib narrated that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said:
Perhaps someone is told a hadith I have said when he is reclining on his couch and he says: ‘Here is God’s Book between us: whatever we find in it to be permissible we will accept as permissible and whatever we find in it as forbidden we will accept as forbidden”. Know that what God’s Messenger has forbidden is just as God has forbidden. In Abu Dāwūd’s version: Know that I have been given the Book and its like with it. Related by Abu Dāwūd, 4604; al-Tirmidhī (his text), 2664; Ibn Mājah, 12.
The Prophet makes clear that no one should deny the status of the Sunnah, claiming that the Qur’an is sufficient. Like the Qur’an, the Sunnah is part of the revelations given to the Prophet.
