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Why the prophet Muhammad is innocent
of the fabricated hadith that fills the hadith books
Millions of Muslims all over the world have been brought up to believe
that the collections of hadith by Bukhari and
Moslim provide the authentic words and teachings of the prophet
Muhammad. These two collections have been labelled 'sahih' (authentic).
The majority of these hadith portray a
chain of narrators in a chinese whispers fashion attributing sayings to the
prophet (e.g. A said that B said that C said ....... that G said, that the
prophet
said). Often the chain extends to seven names or even more, yet for some
reason the hadith advocates still deemed
these hadith to be the authentic and genuine sayings of the prophet! With
an extremely naive type of
logic, it is assumed that every person in the chain is totally honest and
also accurate in their narration! How did they come
to this conclusion?
Well, the hadith advocates
have devised a very simple
criteria for the
assesment
of any
hadith. To
them, the
validity of
any hadith is
dependant
on the
integrity of
the narrator!
They will tell
us that
hadith no
374 (for
example) is
a genuine
hadith
because the
narrator has
been
checked for
good
character!!!
Bearing in
mind that
these
narrators
lived 14
centuries
ago, we may
inquire: who
were they
checked by?
contemporaries of their
time? hadith
guru's
today? or
who?
Needless to
say, the
claim to
endorse the
integrity of 6
or 7
narrators
who
transmitted a
story
through a
chinese
whisper type
of chain,
and who all
lived lived
14 centuries
ago, and
whom we
have never
seen or
heard of
(except from
the hadith
books
themselves)
is a very
naive
practice to
say the
least!
But that is
not all, even
if the
integrity of
each one in
the chain is
beyond
question,
what about
the errors
that occur
merely
through the
effect of a
chinese
whisper
chain?
For
demonstration of this
concept
please refer
to:
Chinese
whispers
In view of
the above,
common
sense
implies that
we should
disregard
this farcical
process.
This criteria
should have
been
discarded a
long time
ago. It is
totally
unreliable
and is
simply
unacceptable. It seems
absurd that
the obvious
criteria (and
actually the
only reliable
one), by
which to test
the
authenticity
of any
hadith was
ignored!
Since the
authenticity
of the
Quran, being
the un-corrupted
word of
God, is not
a matter of
dispute by
any Muslim,
then it would
make much
better sense
to assess the
authenticity
of any
hadith by
determining
whether this
hadith is in
harmony
with Quranic
truth or
whether in
fact it is in
violation of
Quranic
truth.
Scholars
should have
been
checking the
content of
the hadith
itself rather
than the
farcical
character
reference of
the
narrators!
It must be
stressed
here that
testing the
authenticity
of any
hadith is not
for the
purpose of
approving
the hadith as
a source of
religious
law. The
reader of the
Quran
should be
well aware
that God
sanctions
the Quran to
be the sole
source of
religious law:
"Shall I seek
other than
God as a
source of
law, when
He has
revealed to
you this
book fully
detailed?"
6:114
Testing the
authenticity
of any
hadith is
only for
historic
purposes
and for the
benefit of
those who
wish to
research the
life of the
prophet.
After all, and
as we shall
see later, the
prophet
himself
prohibited
his people
from writing
or
documenting
his hadith,
which makes
the whole
collection of
hadith
books a
very
dubious
matter
indeed.
Consequently, and if we
try to apply
the only
logical
criteria for
testing the
hadith (its
compliance
with the
Quran) we
are
immediately
faced with
serious
contradictions between a
large number
of hadith on
one hand
and between
the Quran
on the other
hand.
However, if
we accept
that the
prophet of
God would
never have
taught
anything that
violates or
contradicts
the Quran,
then we
must
conclude
that any
hadith's
which
contradict
the Quran,
and which
are
attributed to
the prophet,
are indeed
lies and
fabrications
that the
prophet is
innocent of.
Our starting
point is one
that looks
into two
contradicting hadith.
In the first
hadith it is
reported that
the prophet
said to his
people
shortly
before his
death:
"I have left
you the
Quran and
my sunna"
Yet in
another
hadith the
prophet
commands
his people
quite the
opposite:
"Do not
write down
anything of
me except
the Quran.
Whoever
writes other
than that
should
delete it"
(Ahmed,
Vol. 1, page
171.....also
Sahih
Moslim )
In
accordance
with
accepting
the Quran to
be the best
criteria to
judge the
authenticity
of any
hadith, let us
look into
these two
hadith and
proceed to
determine
which of the
two is in
harmony
with the
teachings of
the Quran.
To do so, it
is essential
to refer to a
number of
Quranic
verses:
1- The
Quran
confirms
that the only
Sunna is the
Sunna of
God. No
where in the
Quran is
there any
mention of a
Sunna for
Muhammad!!!!
"You will
find that the
Sunna of
Allah is the
only Sunna"
(33:62....35:43.....48:23)
2- The
Quran
commands
all Muslims
to follow the
Quran
Alone, this
command is
found in
numerous
verses, the
following are
examples:
"These are
God's
revelations
that We
recite to you
truthfully. In
which
Hadith other
than God
and His
revelations
do they
believe?"
45:6
"Shall I seek
other than
God as a
source of
law, when
He has
revealed to
you this
book fully
detailed?"
6:114
"This
scripture
(Quran) has
been
revealed to
you - you
shall not
harbor
doubt about
it in your
heart - that
you may
warn with it,
and to
provide a
reminder for
the
believers.
You shall all
follow what
is revealed
to you from
your Lord;
do not
follow any
idols
besides
Him. Rarely
do you take
heed." 7:2-3
The above
Quranic
verses
confirm the
following
matters:
1- That the
Sunna of
God is the
ONLY
Sunna.
2- That God
cammands
us to follow
the Quran as
the ONLY
source of
religious
law.
As a result,
we must
conclude
that in no
way would
the prophet
of God have
uttered
words
against the
commands
and words
of God,
neither
would he
have
advocated
to have a
sunna of his
own which
the believers
should
follow.
Immediately,
we must
discard the
hadith that
says : "I
have left you
the Quran
and my
sunna"
The Quranic
words
above prove
conclusively
that the
prophet
Muhammad
could not
have ever
said such
words. This
hadith
violates the
Quran and
must be
regarded as
a fabrication
and a lie
against the
prophet.
The Quranic
words
above also
confirm that
the second
hadith may
be regarded
as authentic
since it is in
harmony
with the
words of the
Quran.
In
accordance
with the
instructions
left by the
prophet as
per the
second
hadith, we
find that for
the first 200
years after
the death of
the prophet
the writing
of his hadith
was
prohibited.
Historically,
the absence
of any
documented
hadith for
two whole
centuries
also
confirms
that the
prophet
never left his
people with
anything but
the Quran,
and that the
second of
the above
hadith is the
correct one.
We know
that out of
all the hadith
collections
regarded as
"sahih"
(authentic)
today, the
collection of
Al-Bukhari
was the first
to be
documented. But Al-Bukhari was
born in the
year 194
After Hijrah.
This shows
that for two
whole
centuries the
believers
were
following the
Quran alone.
For more
details about
the history
of hadith
please see
the following
page:
History of
hadith
The aim of
this research
is to
demonstrate
numerous
examples of
the very
clear
contradictions between
various
hadith that
are
described
by the hadith
scholars to
be "sahih"
(authentic)
and between
the Quran.
This will
hopefully
demonstrate
to the reader
how the
prophet of
God
Muhammad
is totally
innocent of
the
thousands
of fabricated
hadith that
are falsely
attributed to
him.
Important
Note: It has
been the
habit of the
followers of
hadith to try
to discredit
anyone who
questions
the
authenticity
of hadith.
Immediately,
they would
accuse him
of not
accepting
prophet
Muhammad
as God's
messenger,
and other
equally
unfounded
accusations!
However, if
it can be
proved that
these hadith
which they
call "sahih"
contain an
abundance
of
contradictions with the
Quran, then
this research
in actual fact
becomes a
genuine
defence of
the integrity
and purity of
the prophet
Muhammad
and not the
contrary.
This
research
aims to
prove that
the prophet
Muhammad
would never
have
preached
nor taught
anything that
contradicts
the Quran,
and this
would
automatically exonerate
him from all
such
fabricated
hadith.
It is not
possible to
detail all the
contradictory hadith as
their number
is immense,
so the
following are
a good
selection of
these glaring
contradictions, and for
convenience
purpose,
they have
been placed
in groups.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
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