Is it permissible to call books of 'aqidah (creed) and tafsir (Qur'anic exegesis) "Shar'i Heritage"? And what does this term mean?
Linguistically, 'turath' (تراث) means inheritance, as in Allah's saying: "And you devour inheritance with a devouring of vast consumption" (Qur'an 89:19).
Islamic heritage is what Muslims inherited from their Prophet, the Companions, and Muslim scholars. The greatest of this is the Qur'an and the , followed by the sayings of the Companions and the Four Imams, and then the books of deeply rooted scholars who follow the Qur'an and Sunnah.
Scholars have permitted the use of the term "books of heritage" to refer to the books of the Salaf (pious predecessors).
However, some misguided individuals use this term with the intention that the texts of revelation are "ancient heritage" that can be superseded or treated as a literary text, or they apply it to the books of scholars to diminish their authority.
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