Yaşar Nuri Ozturk's opinion on hadith and sunnah

Yaşar Nuri Öztürk was born on February 5, 1951 in Bayburt, received his first Quran education from his father and became a hafiz at the age of nine. After ten years of madrasa education, he studied law and theology. He worked as an imam and preacher for twelve years, and then completed his doctoral study. He also published the second translation of the Quran translation made by Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır (d. 1361/1942), without any commentary. Öztürk stated that no one other than the Qur'an, even if he was a prophet, could bring any additional provisions to the religion, and he opposed the idea that the Companions were udul. He stated that hadiths could not be reliable because they were brought together after the death of the Prophet, that the hadiths has similar characteristics to the Mishna in the Jewish faith, and most of them were Umayyad fabulation, and that İslâm was tried to be falsified with fabricated hadiths. He also stated that there is deception in the subject of sunnah, that Arab customs and traditions are tried to be portrayed as religion under the name of sunnah, and that hadith and sunnah cannot abrogate the Qur'an. In this context, he stated that Kâ'b al-Ahbâr's (d. 32/653) had narrations about İsrâiliyat and that he played an active role in the martyrdom of Ömer. Öztürk criticized Buhârri (d. 256/870) in many ways and explained that Buhâri was an Arabist and did not take Ebû Hanîfe (d. 150/767) into account. In this study, we tried to reveal the opinions, claims and accusations of Yaşar Nuri Öztürk about hadith and sunnah. Keywords: Hadith, Sunnah, Yaşar Nuri Öztürk