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CONTRADICTIONS BETWEEN THE HADITHS AND THE QURAN The fact that these are hadiths that plainly contradict the verses of the Quran is enough to reject them all and our return to the Quran for our religious concepts. There are thousands of hadiths that present glaring contradictions with the Quran. We shall confine ourselves by quoting only ten. As we proceed, we shall witness many such inconsistencies. Now, how do we know if the Quran is the Word of God? Some may come up with the answer: “It is said so in the Quran.” However, if there crop up persons pointing to other books ascribed to God, what shall be our argument? We shall be able to assert that the Quran is the Word of God after examining and making an assessment of its contents. To discuss the truth of God’s message has to do with the intrinsic contents of the Quran. If we examine the hadiths with the same logic, we can see if they deserve to be a source of God’s revelation or not. As we discuss the degree of truth by the established religion, by referring to the very contents of the Quran, so we must examine the argument that hadiths must be considered a source of religion by referring to the body of hadiths. We have examined the Quran and the hadiths from the point of view of their respective intrinsic values, which would enable us to assess how far they could constitute a source for Islam. The hadiths we shall be examining now will make clear their reliability and truthfulness as a source of Islam. The hadiths quoted here are those acknowledged reliable by prominent hadith scholars. We have left out those denied by them, as they deemed them not dependable. Of the latter, the following examples may be quoted: “When God desired to create Himself, He made the horse run and let it perspire; and out of this perspiration He created Himself” or “God created the angels from the hairs of His armpits and chest” or “God’s eyes were sore, the angels came to pay Him a visit” or “I saw God in my dream. He was a handsome young man with long hair. He wore a green garment and had golden sandals on His feet” (see Defense of the Hadiths Ibn Kutayba). It is true that the prominent hadith scholars denied such fabricated hadiths and ignored them. What we shall presently see are the hadiths quoted by the most reliable, trustworthy and dependable hadith books, and we shall observe that the truth and falsehoods are inextricably mixed and any effort to tell them apart would be fruitless. Moreover, given the fact that the Quran is self-sufficient and complete in every respect, such an effort would be futile. Verse 4 of the Sura The Women states that the source of Islam embodies no contradictions. By such a statement God confirms the truthfulness of the Quran as well as indicating how the book to constitute the source of religion should be. The very existence of the hadiths that contradict the Quran is proof that they cannot be considered as a source of Islam. Verse 15 Al Hijr 9 explicitly states that the Quran is a guarded and protected book. We shall see presently and in the following three chapters that the hadiths are not protected and that the whole body of them has become a hotchpotch of invented sayings. By witnessing the regrettable consequences of the acceptance of the hadiths as a source of religion, we shall better see the absolute necessity of returning to the only source of Islam, the Quran, free from all contradictions and a guarded and protected Book. 1) GOD’S CALF?Hadith: We must draw your attention to the books we have quoted from: books written by Muslim and Bukhari, considered the most reliable and dependable ones. According to the mentality of transmitters of traditions, those who would deny the truth of this tradition would be declared infidels, while those who would believe it, would be true Muslims. There is no need to dwell further on this when we are reminded by the verses that declare that there is nothing whatever like unto Him which will automatically negate it. 2) GOD SHAKES HANDS?Hadith: The hadith without any metaphorical meaning gives shape to God and ascribes fingers to Him and coldness to His hand. If the word ‘hand’ had a symbolical meaning and was not associated in the mind with the concrete hand of man, it might be admissible. For instance when one says: “Everybody is in God’s hands” would connote that everything depends on Him, that He has overall control of everything. But in this context, the hand is the concrete hand of man. In the above text, the hand and fingers to which coldness is attributed cannot possible have a metaphorical connotation. What’s more, the saying is crowned with the shaking of hands of God and man. Would the transmitter of the hadith who believes in the literal meaning of this or the person who observes the falsehood in the invented hadith and deems the Quran self-sufficient, be a truthful Muslim? 3) SHOULD RENEGADES BE PUT TO DEATH?Hadith: There has been no end to murders due to the work of the hadith fabricators who tried to overrule the injunctions of the Quran. Such hadiths were responsible for legitimizing the massacres committed by extremist organizations. If you were among the defenders of the Sunni sects, your raising objections to these murders would be in vain. Evidence to justify this are embodied in the Sunni books of hadiths and in the books of the sectarians. 4) SUFFERING FOR TEARSHadith: This hadith, unreasonable and inconsistent with the intrinsic logic of the Quran, is an illustrative example of a fabricated hadith. 5) GOOD WOMEN AND CROWSHadith: While the Quran opens the path for men and women produces good deeds without any discrimination between them, the hadith bars the way to women. The woman issue is one of the subjects about which there is no end to invented hadiths. (For a detailed account, see Chapters 21 & 22.) 6) SPELL AND PROPHETHadith: To the objection raised by Muhammad Abduh and Mu’tezila to this hadith, Muhammad Abu Shhebe provided the following argument: “If Abduh denied the hadith related to the spell cast over Muhammad, many scholars like Al Mazrii, al Hattabi, Cadi Iyaz, Ibn Taymiyya, Ibn ul Kayyým Ibn Kathir, En Nevevi, Ibn Hajar, al Kurtubi and Alusi, have acknowledged its truth.” Shahbe says Bukhari and Muslim also had acknowledged it, went on to add to it the following account: “A spell was cast upon the Prophet. He was believed to have slept with his wives while in fact he had not. Sufyan declared that he had been under a powerful black magic” (Abu Shabbe, Defense of the Sunna, pp. 152-153.). According to the Quran, those who said that the prophet was bewitched were wicked people. Yet, most of the reliable hadith scholars had been of a different cast of mind. You may revert to syllogistic reasoning to conclude the identity of the wicked people. 7) IS A WILL PERMISSIBLE?Hadith: Reference is made to the will both in Sura The Feast and in other verses. The estate remaining after the execution of the will is distributed as indicated in the Quran. This hadith, aiming at repealing the lawfulness of bequeathing, is an attempt at revocation of a provision of the Quran. 8) PAINTERS GREATEST SINNERS?Hadith: According to the Quran, the greatest sin is to set up partners to God. Every sin is pardonable except this. Therefore these will be the people who will be doomed to eternal punishment. If one is to give credence to Bukhari’s above stated hadith, the painters will be doomed to eternal punishment. (The hadith invented by sectarians and hadith transmitters to show their hostility to arts will be the subject of Chapter 18.) This hadith contradicts the Quran. Moreover there are other conflicting hadiths. For instance, according to another hadith, chess players will receive the severest punishment (Capital Sins, Hafýz Zahabi). 9) WEARING GOLD ITEMS AND SILK GARMENTS?Hadith: Gold and silk may be worn both by men and women indiscriminately. There is no hint in the Quran regarding their prohibition. God allows them to be made use of by both sexes. This hadith of Muslim who contends that every one of the hadiths he transmits is valid conflicts with the relevant verse of the Quran mentioned above. 10) FISH CAUSE OF EARTHQUAKE?Hadith: The Quran miraculously stated that the earth had an elliptical shape, it explained as today’s science would have explained the formation of the embryo, the wind’s role in insemination, etc. Yet the superstitions that find a place in the hadiths conflict with the Quran and logic. Why not ask the possessors of this mentality the kind of fish that is supposed to support the earth? |