Fazlur Rahman states that Sunnah tends to be guidance not a set of rule. Thus, efforts should be done to formalize, verbalize and make it permanent in the form of Hadith text. Otherwise, Moslems will face discontinuity of history. However, the formulized Hadiths do not necessarily mean that the Hadiths become absolute. When it is so, the Hadiths were essentially reduced.
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