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Aisha’s Critique of Authentic Hadith Content via Quranic Universals[1] Jasser Auda This paper approaches the relationship between the Quran and Sunnah from the angle of using the Quranic universals to critique the content (matn) of hadith narrations. Aisha Bint Abu Bakr, the Mother of the Believers, gave us a strong example and a clear illustration for applying this method. This article will present a number of illustrative examples of hadith, in which Aisha confidently rejected other companions’ narrations, despite being ‘authentic’ according to the sanad verification  criteria that had developed later. Aisha’s rejection was based on the contradiction of...