Can sunnah/Science of ahadeeth be trusted?

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Tru3m0sl3m

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Claim that the Sunnah cannot be trusted

Some people reject the Sunnah on the basis that there are many weak and fabricated ahaadeeth and that the fabrications of many liars weaken the Sunnah and make it such that it cannot be trusted. What is your opinion about this claim?

Praise be to Allaah.

This is the view of some heretics and misguided people, both in the past and nowadays. In modern times, those who expressed this view include Saalih Abu Bakr in his book al-Adwaa' al-Qur'aaniyyah; Husayn Ahmad Ameen in Daleel al-Muslim al-Hazeen; Ahmad Ameen in Fajr al-Islam; 'Abd-Allaah al-Na'eem in Nahwa Tatweer al-Tashree' al-Islaami; Sa'eed al-'Ashmaawi in Haqqeeqat al-Hijaab; Saalih al-Wardaani in his misleading book Rihlati min al-Sunnah ila al-Shee'ah; 'Abd al-Jawaad Yaaseen in al-Sultah fi'l-Islam; Nasr Abu Zayd in Imaam al-Shaafa'i; Zakariya 'Abbaas Dawood in Ta'ammulaat fi'l-Hadeeth; Hawlat Nahr in Diraasaat Muhammadiyyah; Maurice Bucaille in Diraasat al-Kutub al-Muqaddisah; Murtada al-'Askar in Khamsoon wa Mi'ah Sahaabi Mukhtalaq; Dr. Mustafa Mahmood in Maqaalaat 'an al-Shafaa'ah.
We say: it is true that there were fabricators and liars who made up words and attributed them to the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), but the matter is not quite so simple as imagined by those doubters who also spread doubts among others. They are unaware of the facts about how the Muslims took care of the Sunnah. Alongside the fabricators, there were great numbers of narrators who were trustworthy and highly skilled, and a large number of scholars who surrounded the hadeeths of the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) with a strong barrier which was difficult for the liars to penetrate. By means of their vast knowledge and deep insight, these muhaddithoon (scholars of hadeeth) were able to spot the liars and understand their intentions and motives, and they were able to detect everything that was falsely attributed to the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him). These fabricators were not given free rein to do as they wished with the ahaadeeth of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), and they were given no room to penetrate the ranks of trustworthy narrators of ahaadeeth without being detected.
Who else exposed the lies of these kaafirs, heretics and extreme innovators?

Who were the ones who gave us the definition of what is fabricated, the reasons for fabrication, different types of fabrications and the signs by which a fabricated report may be recognized? Who wrote so many books on this issue?
They are the guardians of Islam, the vicegerents and troops of Allaah on His earth. They are the brilliant scholars of whom Haaroon al-Rasheed spoke when he arrested a heretic and ordered that he be executed. The heretic said, "Why are you executing me?" Haaroon al-Rasheed said, "To rid the people of you." The heretic said: "O Ameer al-Mu'mineen, what will you do about the thousand ahaadeeth - according to one report, four thousand ahaadeeth -which I have fabricated and spread among you, in which I made what is halaal haraam and what is haraam halaal, of which the Prophet uttered not one letter?" Haaroon al-Rasheed said to him: "What will you do, O enemy of Allaah, about Abu Ishaaq al-Fazaari and 'Abd-Allaah ibn al-Mubaarak? They will go through them and sift them letter by letter." (Tadhkirat al-Huffaaz by al-Dhahabi, 1/273; Taareekh al-Khulafaa' by al-Suyooti, p. 174).

Professor Muhammad Asad said: "The existence of fabricated ahaadeeth cannot be taken to prove that the entire system of hadeeth is not to be trusted, because these fabricated ahaadeeth never deceived the muhadditheen as some European critics claimed, oversimplifying the matter, and as was echoed by some who claim to be Muslims." (al-Islam 'ala Muftaraq al-Tareeq, p. 96)
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Continued....
We will end this discussion by quoting what was said by Imaam Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah: Imaam Abu'l-Muzaffar al-Sam'aani said: "If they say: there are too many reports in the hands of the people and they have become confused, we say: no one is confused except those who are ignorant. Those who have knowledge of them (the reports) check them as stringently as those who deal with money check dirhams and dinars. So they single out (and discard) the false reports and keep the good reports. If there happens to be a narrator who made a mistake, this will not go unnoticed by the brilliant scholars of hadeeth. These scholars listed the mistakes made in both the isnaad (chain of narrators) and matn (texts) of reports; so you can see that for each narrator they made a list of the mistakes that he had made and the letters that he had mispronounced. If the mistakes of the narrators - in both the isnaad and the matn - did not go unchecked, then how could the fabricated ahaadeeth manufactured by the heretics have slipped past those brilliant scholars? How could people have narrated ahaadeeth from heretics without the scholars noticing? That is the view of some heretics, but no one would say such a thing except one who is ignorant, misguided, an innovator and a liar who wants to undermine the saheeh ahaadeeth and true reports of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and confuse ignorant people by means of this lie. There is no evidence for rejecting the reports of the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) that is weaker or more impossible than this. The one who voices this view deserves to be silenced and expelled from the Muslim lands.
Mukhtasar al-Sawaaiq al-Mursalah, 2/561,Al-Bayaan magazine, issue #153, p. 26

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>Assalamu'alaikum! I would like to ask some question regarding syaitan,
>nafsu and hadiths.
>Is it true that in Ramadhan, syaitan are tied up? i was told it is from a
>hadith. Can hadith be trusted? The reason why i asked if the hadiths could
>be trusted because i have this friend which tells me that the hadiths
>can't be trusted because the hadiths contradicts each other and also
>because the hadiths were written by human beings. So i would like to
>confirm it. Is it true what my friend stated?
>Also, my friend claims that only syaitan can incite us to do sin. Is it
>true? But i've read somewhere that the Nafs also can do so too? Which is
>right? I hope you will answer my questions.


Assalamualaikum wr wb
In The Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.

Thank you for your query. We commend your effort to seek clarifications in
matters concerning Islam.

It is dangerous to have some knowledge and pretend or thought that one can
speak authoritatively on Islam.
Hadith is prophetic sayings. They have been recorded since the earliest
time by the Prophet's companions, and preserved both in writing and orally
throughtout the ages. For sure, there are some people who attempted to
falsify hadith, creating new hadith and claming that it came from the
Prophet. They usually did this for worldly reasons, such as to gain
recognition, favours from the sultans, or even to increase their business
profits.
It is because of this, in the second to fourth century Hijrah, there
appeared many scholars who did meticulous background research on each and
every individual who has even conveyed any hadith. These individuals
numbers hundreds of thousands. The collective efforts of those scholars are
recorded in voluminous books, that survived to this day. No other scholars
of other religion can even attempt to do that.
Besides this gargantuan task, the scholars also compiled all the hadith in
book form for preservation to next generations. One scholar in the 5th
century Hijrah by the name of Jalaludin Suyuti sorted all those hadith in
alphabetical order, and those hadiths numbered almost 100 000.
Thus, it can be seen that the science of hadith is very rigorous and
respected as field of knowledge taught and learnt at many universities,
even in the west such as Oxford and Cambridge. Reputable scholars, Muslims
and non-Muslims alike, agree that the collected hadith which has been
classified as authentics came from the Prophet himself and not creation of
others.
There are hadiths which seems to contradict each other. And this is not
something new. The scholars even from the earliest time created a field of
study called Ikhtilaf Hadith as a specialised study on this subject. One of
the logical explanation is that those hadith was mentioned by the Prophet
at different times to different individual. An anology is this: suppose a
student ask a teacher which is the most important topic to learn, and the
teacher said: trigonometry. The teacher said that because the coming test
will concentrate much on that topic. Another year, another class, another
student asked the same teacher the same question. And the teacher replied:
algebra, because that year's test will touch more on it.
Now, looking just at the question and answer without looking at the
circumstances around them, one may think that the teacher gave conflicting
answers.
The same goes with hadith. Contradicitons occur if one disregard the
circumstances surrounding the hadith.
As for the second question, people commit sinful acts because of syaithan
and also his nafs, his desire. Thus, even during Ramadan, when the big and
major syaithans are tied down, the nafs are free to trick people into
commiting sinful acts.
We hope that this reply answers your question. Please continue to seek
religious knowledge at mosques or by reading authentic materials. A good
book that you can rely on is The Reliance of the Traveller by Nuh Ha Mim
Keller. This book can be found in many Muslim bookstores, especially Darul
Arqam and Pergas.

And Allah knows best.
Wassalam.


Source: http://dinulislam.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/hadiths-nafsu-and-syaitan/
 
Tru3m0sl3m

Tru3m0sl3m

Brother in ISLAM
:salam2:
There are many more sites that give you proofs from quran about ahadeeth

Read the book "The authority of sunnah" by usman qadi(don't remember the exact name)
and you'll find much more light on sunnah of our prophet muhammed(s.a.w)

And i went through some of the sites like submission.info which gave their own point of view on invalidation on sunnah.. I wasn't impressed.. They gOTTA TRY HARDER.. to fool me..
And those who are satisfied by their stereotypical view on this subject.. I feel sorry for them..
:wasalam:
 
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