Birth place of hadith and sunnah falsely assigned to the prophet is Madinah, the former name was Yathrib, which had been ruled by the early Jews since 66 A.D. who took shelter there to escape the massacre in Jerusalem by the Romans. Prophet Muhammad took shelter there too to save himself and his followers from the tyranny of the Meccans, while the name Yathrib was eventually changed to Madinatun-Nabi (The City of the Prophet) and in short Madinah and the reference is also found in the Quran (33:13 and 43:31):
[33:13] And when a party of them said, “O people of Yathrib (Madinah), there is no stand for you; so you shall go back.” While a group of them asked permission from the prophet saying, “Indeed, our homes are exposed,” while were not exposed. They do not wish except fleeing.
[43:31] And they said, “Why has not been sent down this – the Quran to an eminent man of the two towns (Mecca and Yathrib).”
Hadith and Sunnah are conjecture and guess work
The word “Sunnah”, up to the time of Prophet Muhammad meant the practices of antiquity especially in Yathrib, the city ruled by the Jews, and the Hadith literature – the source of the Sunnah, is imposingly believed to be the words of Prophet Muhammad passed down through his companions. While purportedly made in the name of the Prophet, a number of these sayings can actually be traced to Zoroastrian culture, the Christian Bible and even the laws and rituals of the Byzantine. In a manner of speaking, the limited legislation in the Quran, basically the rules in regard to marriage, divorce, inheritances, orphans, food and a few others occupy very little room in the whole canon of Sharia Laws. A vast bulk of it comes from the Sunnah and significantly from Bukhari, concocted and recorded about 200 years after the death of the Prophet. Evidently, deeply merged in it, are the arbitrary laws, induced by the Muslim emperors and kings of their own as they could not successfully invoke to settle questions arising in such diverse categories as systematic and moral theology, ritual, civil and military laws etc.
However, let us see what we can learn from the Quran when volumes after volumes of hadith books have been created including sunnahs to corrupt Islam being practice of God’s religion of Monotheism, an instinct of God on which He has created mankind to worship Him being sincere to Him in the religion:
- There is reference in the Quran that hadiths were collected at prophet’s lifetime, and the history tells us that the prophet told his companions to burn what they had collected at his lifetime being satanic tricks, which was also a warning for the prophet and his contemporary believers.
[6:112] And thus that we have made an enemy for every prophet devils from the human and the jinn to inspire of them to other the fancy word for deception; and if your (prophet) Lord had willed, they would not have done it. So, you shall disregard them and what they invent.
[6:113] And that there inclines to it hearts of those who do not believe in the Hereafter, and that they please with it, and that they commit what they are committing.
[6:114] Is there then other than God should I seek as judge, while He is the One who has sent down to you the scripture is a detailed one? And those whom we have given them the scripture know that it is a sent down from your Lord with the truth. So, do not be with the doubtful ones.
- God’s signs of creation of human and other creature, alternation of day and night, sending down of water from the sky for provision and giving life to the dead land, and directing of wind for moving clouds are recited, which are truth. When God has cited what is truth to us, then any hadith other than His revelations is lying, which is a warning for the believers of any generations against any sinful liar:
[45:3] Indeed, in the heavens and the earth there are surely signs for the believers.
[45:4] And in your creation and what He disperses from creature are signs for a people to ascertain.
[45:5] And alternation of the night and the day, and what God has sent down from the sky for provision that He has given life to the earth with it after its death, and directing of the winds are signs for a people to reflect.
[45:6] That is of God’s signs we recite them to you (Muhammad) with the truth. So, in which Hadith after God and His revelations do they believe?
[45:7] Woe to every sinful liar,
[45:8] who hears God’s revelations, is recited to him, then he insists on being arrogant as if he does not hear them. So, you shall give him a news of a painful punishment.
- The devils have not descended with God’s revelations, they are not even permitted to hear His revelations, but the devils and the poets are liars who descend with the hearsay and the deviators follow them:
[26:210] And there has not descended the devils with it (Quran).
[26:211] Nor does it befit for them, nor have they been able.
[26:212] Indeed, they are surely driven away from the hearing.
[26:221] Do I inform you upon whom descends the devils?
[26:222] Descends upon every sinful liar.
[26:223] They pass on the hearsay, while most of them are liars.
[26:224] And the poets – follows them the deviators.
[26:225] Do you not see that they roam to every valley,
[26:226] and that they say what they do not do?
- A vast bulk of hadiths were collected in the name of the prophet down the generations about 200 years after the death of prophet, which are conjecture and guess work, and the majority who claim them Muslims follow them to mislead themselves from God’s path, while God has warned us not to follow the majority and to disregard the conjecture and guess work:
[6:115] And your Lord’s Word has completed truth and justice. There is no modifier of His words, and He is the Hearer, the Knower.
[6:116] And if you obey a majority whoever is in the earth, they will mislead you from God’s path; they do not follow except the conjecture, nor do they do except guess.
[6:117] Indeed, your Lord, He is Knower of whoever strays from His path, and He is Knower of the guided ones.
- God gives us an indication to know the end of the world is approaching near when people will listen to innovations and falsehood, and He will let them go astray and will leave them to wander in their transgression:
[7:185] Do they not look at dominion of the heavens and the earth, and what of a thing God has created and that it may have been that there has certainly come near their term? So, in which Hadith after of it (Quran) do they believe?
[7:186] Whomever God lets go astray, there is no guide for him, and He leaves them to wander in their transgression.
- God has sent down a scripture of best hadith being consistent to each other and He guides the believers with it, while He is aware that hadiths to be created will have many contradictions and whoever accepts other than His Hadith goes to astray having no guide for them. On the other hand, there has been a challenge for the prophet’s contemporaries to produce a hadith like of it, which means that what they had produced at his lifetime were lies and falsehood:
[39:23] God has sent down a scripture of the best Hadith being consistent to each other. The skins of those who fear their Lord shiver from it (Quran), then their skins and their hearts soften up to God’s message. That is God’s guidance; He guides with it (Quran) whomever He wills, and whomever God lets go astray, then there is no guide for him.
[52:34] Then let them bring of a Hadith like of it, if they have been truthful.
- God has warned us about the consequences of the humiliating punishment for the followers of hadith being it a mockery to Him, which they follow other than Quran would not help them to reach their destination being deniers of the reminder:
[31:6] And among the people whoever accepts the baseless Hadith to mislead him from God’s path without knowledge and takes it as mockery; those, for them there is a humiliating punishment.
[68:44] So leave Me and whoever denies in this – the book; we will lead them from where they would not know.
[77:50] Then in which Hadith do they believe after of it (Quran)?
- God has confirmed in the Quran that the prophet had neither been a soothsayer nor a poet, and those who have called him a poet ask him to bring a sign what has been sent to previous people claiming the verses of the Quran to be evil dreams will face the consequence on a day they will meet Him is a warning for the believers not to listen any saying other than Quran:
[52:29] So, you shall remind that by grace of your Lord you are neither of a soothsayer, nor a madman.
[52:30] Or do they say, “He is a poet, we will wait with him for a time of the misfortune?”
[21:5] Nay, they said, “these are evil dreams; nay, he has invented it (Quran); nay, he is a poet. Let him bring us a sign like what has been sent to the previous people.”
[37:36] And they say, “Would we be surely abandoners of our gods for a crazy poet?”
- Hadithists who are considered Islamic scholars claim that the Quran being difficult to understand is explained through prophet’s sayings, which are great lies as the prophet was forbidden to do that, then how will they justify it?
[75:16] You (prophet) do not move your tongue with it (Quran) to hasten with it.
[75:17] Indeed, upon us is its collection and its recitation.
[75:18] So when we have recited it, then you shall follow its recitation.
[75:19] Then indeed, upon us is its explanation.
- Millions of so called Muslims around the globe and their scholars and leaders claim that the prophet had stated hadiths and sunnahs to do the righteous deeds making them equal to the status of the verses of Quran is not but a horrendous crime, while by taking oath referring to what is the seen and what is the unseen God has affirmed that the prophet has recited what has been recited to him which was an uttering of an honorable messenger and a revelation from Lord of the worlds, and he had neither been a soothsayer or a poet, and if he had recited anything other than it, he would be punished and no force in the earth could protect him, even there is mathematical confirmation of this piece of information, then is it not a shame for those who are claiming that the prophet had recited hadith and sunnah and are following them expecting their return to a better place with their Lord upon committing horrendous crime?
[69:38] That nay! I swear by what you see.
[69:39] And what you do not see.
[69:40] Indeed, it is an uttering of an honorable messenger.
[69:41] And it is not an uttering of a poet; little is what you believe.
[69:42] Nor is it of an uttering of a soothsayer; little in what you take heed.
[69:43] A revelation from Lord of the worlds.
[69:44] And if he (prophet) had fabricated any of the saying about us;
[69:45] surely, we would have seized by the right hand from him;
[69:46] then surely, we would have cut off the aorta from him.
[69:47] Then no one from you would be protectors of him.
Note: This mathematical confirmation from 10 verses of a single surah, surah al-Haaqqah (The Incontestable) when the surah and the verse numbers are added, the sum is a multiple of 19 -> 494 (19X26) is an explicit proof that prophet Muhammad was neither a poet nor a soothsayer, and what he has recited is a revelation from God, and if he had recited any other sayings, he would be punished and no force in the earth would protect him.
- God has specified criteria for the believers to succeed what they need to do including that (1) they are to be humbles during their salat prayer, (2) they are averse from the vain talk, (3) they are payers of the zakat and (4) they are protectors of their chastity, while there is mathematical confirmation of this piece of information that we can strengthen our hearts when the surah and the verse numbers are added, the sum is a multiple of 19 -> 38 (19X2), then should we corrupt our belief and practices listening to the vain talks?:
[23:1] Certainly, has succeeded the believers:
[23:2] Those who are humbles during their salat prayer.
[23:3] And those who are averse from the vain talk.
[23:4] And those who are payers of the zakat.
[23:5] And those who are protectors of their chastity.
Note: This mathematical confirmation from 5 simple verses at the beginning of surah al-Mu’minuun (The Believers) is an explicit proof that the believers who have not turned away from the vain talk, then they cannot expect their success at their Lord.
Conclusion
God has confirmed in the Quran that the believers must follow a sent down from their Lord, which has completed truth and justice with His words, while the people are committing a horrendous crime seeking a judge other than Him as well as following the conjecture and guess work. He has warned them not to follow the majority in the earth as He knows that the alleged hadiths and sunnahs will play a vital role down the generations and most people will follow them to make them losers.
There is clear indication both from the history and the Quran that hadiths were invented in the prophet’s lifetime as well as down the generations after the death of prophet. However, a bulk of hadiths and sunnahs as gathered down the generations in the prophet’s name are words of devils from human and jinn listen to the hearts of those who do not believe in the Hereafter and become the main source of religious teachings in the name of Islam being advocated by the so called learned people of the religion, who literally waste their time to learn the details of living according to such words. But it has been confirmed from the Quran that the prophet had neither been a soothsayer nor a poet and the deviators listen to the sayings of soothsayer and poet, while God knows whoever has gone astray and whoever is guided one.
The so called Islamic scholars who claim that the Quran being difficult to understand is explained through prophet’s sayings, are great lies as the prophet was forbidden to do that, which indicates that they do not know what is in the Quran. Moreover, there is explicit proof that prophet Muhammad had neither been a poet nor a soothsayer, and what he had recited is a revelation from God, and if he had recited any other sayings, he would be punished and no force in the earth would protect him. So, those who are doing their religion business or are practicing religion upholding hadiths and sunnahs claiming that the prophet had recited them, there is no good news for them for committing horrendous crime.
God has specified in a small set of verses in the surah al-Mu’minuun (The Believers) at the beginning of the surah how the believers can succeed, which has also an explicit proof that the believers must disregard the vain talk should not be taken lightly if they expect to see their success at their Lord.
Direct evidence from divine source including historical perspective confirms that hadiths and sunnahs collected in the name of prophet are not sayings of prophet except innovations and falsehood being words of devils, hearsay of soothsayer and poet as well as vain talk, while a number of these sayings can also actually be traced to Zoroastrian culture, the Christian Bible and even the laws and rituals of the Byzantine. Thus, those who can reflect to the truth given by God as well as can accept logic and proof from a divine source should make efforts to practice Islam as found in the Quran disregarding the majority to obey God to see their success in the Hereafter.
Peaceful Friday, salaam and God bless.
Tafazzal (02/02/2024)