Rejection of Hadeeth is Really the
Rejection of the Qur’aan!
In this treatise I will inSha Allaah discuss and establish that
Hadeeth is necessary to understand Glorious Qur’aan and rejection of Hadeeth is
really the rejection of the Glorious Qur’aan.
Allaah (SWT) says in Glorious Qur’aan,
With clear signs and Books (We
sent the Messengers). And We have also sent down unto you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه
و سلم)
the Dhikr (reminder and
the advice (i.e. the Qur’ân)), that you may
explain clearly to men what is sent down to them, and that they may
give thought.
The word الذِّكْرَ (adh-dhikr)
in Ayaah (verse) 16:44 وَأَنْزَلْنَا
إِلَيْكَ الذِّكْرَ لِتُبَيِّنَ
لِلنَّاسِ {And
We have also sent down unto you (O Muhammad صلى الله
عليه و سلم) the Dhikr (reminder and the advice (i.e. the
Qur’ân)), that you may explain clearly to men
what is sent down to them} means, by consensus, the Glorious
Qur’aan, and in this Ayaah (verse) Prophet Muhammad (SAW) has been given the
assignment of explaining the meaning of the Ayaat (Glorious Qur’aan) revealed
to him, to the people and/or mankind. Therefore, herein, lies an open proof
that the correct understanding of the realities, insight and injunctions of the
Glorious Qur’aan depends on the statements and/or deeds of the Prophet Muhammad
(SAW). If everyone by simply
having and/or acquiring the knowledge of Arabic language were to become capable
of understanding the injunctions of the Glorious Qur’aan as Divinely intended,
then the mission of explaining assigned to Prophet Muhammad (SAW) would have
been rendered meaningless.
In Al-Muwafqat, Allamah Shatibi has provided detailed proof that the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) (the whole of it) is the explanation of the Glorious Qur’aan. For further reading and/or evidence please click on the following three links:
Thus, the outcome is that every word and deed of Prophet Muhammad (SAW) is a mirror image of Glorious Qur’aan, as we read,
Nor does he speak of (his own) desire. It is only a Revelation revealed.
The above Ayaat further confirms that the words and deeds of the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) are and/or were Divinely guided and guarded, thus, have same authority as that of Glorious Qur’aan.
If a person claims under any pretext that Ahadeeth are unreliable, in fact he/she is accusing the Prophet Muhammad for acting against the Glorious Qur’aan and its injunctions for not explaining the Glorious Qur’aan. Thus, attackers of Ahadeeth are suggesting that Glorious Qur’aan is not protected and/or remained unprotected none of it is true. I have already discussed this issue in my other articles cited above, especially in Preservation of Glorious Qur’aan & Sunnah. The absurd claims of Hadeeth rejecters and/or enemies of Islaam are contrary to the textual authority (nass) of the Glorious Qur’aan. From here it stands proved that any person who refuses to accept the Sunnah {and/or Ahadeeth} of the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) as a binding authority of Islaam is, in reality a denier of the Glorious Qur’aan itself (Naudhubillaah).
The Myth of Hundreds of thousands
of Ahadeeth!!!
The myth that there are hundreds of thousands of Ahadeeth احاديث which were allegedly complied hundreds of years after Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم has always been very aggressively put forth by the Kuffar, Pseudo-Muslims and/or Pseudo-Islaamic cults without any supporting evidence [as usual].
The total number of Ahadeeth احاديث reported from Rasool Allaah رسول الله صلى
الله عليه وسلم only goes
in the thousands. Imaam Bukhari’s [رحمته
الله]
Kitaab ‘al-Jamius Saheeh’ only contains 9082 Ahadeeth احاديث, including all sorts of narrations and repeats. What
then is the status of all other Ahadeeth احاديث.
The
answer can be fond in the terminology of the Muhadditheen محدثين. When one
thing is heard from ten different persons and these ten personas
relate this to you, then according
to the Muhadditheen محدثين, you
have heard ten things. This is so
because the subject matter and then ten different sources are all listed
down, resulting in ten different narrations. Ahadeeth احاديث are also classified in this manner, where
one Hadeeth حديث may have been related via ten chains
of narrators, so in Hadeeth حديث terminology, this is counted as ten
Ahadeeth احاديث.
Besides this, almost all Muhadditheen محدثين also regard the speech, practices and conditions of the Sahaabah صحابه رضي الله عنهم as Hadeeth حديث. Since according to them, besides the Ahadeeth-e-Nabwi [احاديث نبوى], the speech, actions and conditions of Sahaabah صحابه رضي الله عنهم are also included amongst Ahadeeth احاديث. Since there was a great number of Sahaabah صحابه رضي الله عنهم, thus, there speech, actions and conditions are also many. This is the reason of large number of Ahadeeth احاديث but not as many as the enemies of Islaam like to project.
Friday, November 21, 2003