Al-Najd - What is it?

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Re: Al-Najd - What is it?

@Das_Reich

^The rise of regional power politics in the various regions of the Islamic heartlands must be borne in mind when we are addressing such hadith.

One only have to look at the glorification of Jerusalem and the start of the dome of rock pilgrimage during the time of ummayyads as a alternate hajj when ibn zubair controlled hijaz.

The Sunni rulers had no influence over the ahadith tradition of the scholars. The mechanism of authentication ensured that any attempts to do so would quickly be rectified.

It is an assumption to make the connection of power politics with hadith. Yes it was present in various other cultures and in some Islamic verbal traditions and possibly in the less controlled sirat books but not in the hadith. The evidence is to the contrary - i.e. many scholars were persecuted by the ruling elite for not siding with them.

Besides the example you give is about a practice that had developed (any hadith that were fabricated?) … In that case there was a similar practice that developed regarding Karbala. Hence a practice that forms has nothing whatsoever to do with the hadith connection between Iraq and Najd - both of which are called “place where will emerge the horn of satan”