ATTITUDE OF THE FOUR CALIPHS TOWARD THE HADITHS
Those who have acknowledged the existence of books other than the Quran as sources for Islam in the belief that the Quran was not self-sufficient, and who have tried to understand Islam basing this on the hadiths, think that the…
SOME PROMINENT HADITH FABRICATORS
If the hadiths were to be a source of Islam like the Quran, the Prophet would have asked his companions to copy and learn them by heart. Yet, he prohibited their copying, let alone ordering them to be copied as…
HADITHS JUDGED BY HADITHS
We have already seen that logic and the Quran negate most of the so-called hadiths. On the other hand, there are hadiths that contradict other hadiths. We have seen instances of this in Chapters 4 and 7. Our aim in…
INTERPOLATIONS BY HADITHS
Just to make sure that certain errors are indeed made clear and, consequently, corrected, we find it advisable to stress certain points once again. There may be people who would come up arguing that the hadiths that do not clash…
HADITHS IN CONTRADICTION WITH LOGIC
In the preceding chapters, we saw that the Quran was a guarded, consistent and complete book wherein there were no contradictions, and constituted thus the only source of Islam. We also observed that the hadiths had been exposed to interpolations,…
CONTRADICTORY HADITHS
As we have seen, God says that the Quran is protected and free from all contradictions. God brings testimony to His statement by the fact that the Quran is His own word. By analogy, we deduced in Chapter 6 that…
CONTRADICTIONS BETWEEN THE HADITHS AND THE QURAN
We shall study in this chapter the contradictions between the Quran, the basic and unique source of Islam, and the fabricated hadiths. When we observe the fatal consequences of the adoption of the hadiths as a source of religion, we…
HADITHS AND SUNNA
In Chapter 2 of this book we saw that the Quran was a self-sufficient source for Islam and that there was no need for any additional source. In this chapter we shall be studying the way the hadiths were collected…