Importance Of Hadeeth ( Prophets Teachings)

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Warsame, the in House Somali Christian Priest is busy educating Nomads in their Religion Islam, showing off his knowledge of Classical Arabic, Somali Language, Quraan and Hadeeth.

 

For the fisrt time viewer, Warsame comes across as a legitimate scholar in these desciplines, however, everytime I have taken the time to read his responses I could not help but admire his resourcefulness in the art of dishonest debating, talking words out of context and his clear ignorance in the rudiments of the arabic language.

 

Lately, he took his ignorance to a new level, he calimed that that the Quraan is warning Muslims not to follow the Hadeeth of the Messneger, interestingly, for a person who does not believe in the Quraan, he is using the Quran to refute the hadeeth, so once the Hadeeth is out of the way, he feels, he can take on the Quraan, to convince Nomads that Jesus is Allah and that Somalis should worship him.

 

Warsame wrote:

 

the Qur’an clearly prohibits Hadeeth and Sunnah other than the Qur’an. In fact, The Qur’an alone is the true Hadeeth and the true Sunnah :

 

“ Bal si fiican u dhugo Aayadahan Quraanka ah :

 

1) Xadiis aan Quraanka aheyn ma rumeysantihiin?

 

These are GOD's revelations that we recite to you truthfully. In which

 

Below, I am reposting my response to his suggestion, followed by a short course about Hadeeth Science for those he confuses with his ignorance, to show him that the Hadeeth is far more accurate than his bible.

 

 

Warsame

 

The Verse from Suurah Al Jaathiyah that you have misquoted is translated as follows:

 

6. These are the portents of Allah which We recite unto thee (Muhammad) with truth. Then in what Hadeeth, after Allah and His portents, will they believe ?

 

 

First let us read the whole context of the verses before I explain to you the meaning of Hadeeth:

 

Verses 7 through 11 address people like you, let us see what Allah SWT says about you:

 

7 Woe unto each sinful liar,

 

8 Who heareth the revelations of Allah recited unto him, and then continueth in pride as though he heard them not. Give him tidings of a painful doom.

 

9 And when he knoweth aught of Our revelations he maketh it a jest. For such there is a shameful doom.

 

10 Beyond them there is hell, and that which they have earned will naught avail them, nor those whom they have chosen for protecting friends beside Allah. Theirs will be an awful doom.

 

11 This is guidance. And those who disbelieve the revelations of their Lord, for them there is a painful doom of wrath.

 

 

Warsame

 

 

The word Hadeeth in Arabic ( I wrote a whole article on SOL ) is a word whose meaning is dependent on the context in which it addresses:

 

Here, Hadeeth means news and commandments from Allah SWT, of which the very Messneger Muhammad SAWS brought His portents and proofs in action and words known as al Hadeeth al Nabawy al Shareef, because Muhammad SAWS was the conveyor of the message of Allah SWT, the people addressed with the above verses were polytheists like you, who ascribed chiuldren to Allah SWT, who believed the only way to get close to Allah is through his daughters, Laatta, Cuzza and Manaat, same like the way you belive that God is made of three Gods, God the Father, God The son and God the Holy Spirit, yet you believe that its a miracle that these three are still one God, who died on the Cross, But Quresih did not believe that God died for three days like you do, they believed that all other Gods on earth are infrior ,so in time of trouble they sought the God in heaven only, which God of the three Gods do you seek Warsame?.

 

The Quraan highlights the importance of the Hadeeth as follws:

 

1 . His instructions ( Hadeeth) must be obeyed, in addition to the instructions of Allah ( Quraan)

 

" Ateecu Allaha wa ateecu Arrasuula" U hogaansama Allah una hogaansama Rasuulka" Obey Allah and Obey The Messenger "

 

Obedience means to obey him on all of his instructions to Muslims which were collectively compiled and categorized with great accuracy and known as the Hadeeth which is a practical interpretation of the Quraan, and also a form of waxy from Allah SWT which is far superior that the collection of stories by Paul and company who invented a new religion based on Polytheism mascquarading as a monotheist religion.

 

 

2. Refusal to Obey Hadeeth, in which the Messenger instructed to do something or farbade something can make a pesron a Kaafir, and a target for Allah's punsihment .

 

 

" Fal yaxdarilladiina yukhaalifuuna can amrihi an yusiibahum fitnatun aw cadhaabun aliim" Ha iska jiraan kuwa diiday amarkiisa ( Rasuulka), iney fitno ku dhacdo ( Gaalnimo, sida tan adiga kugu dhacday), ama cadaab xanuun badan ( oom ku sugesys haddaad soo laaban wesyo )

 

3. Even iimaan is conditional to accept the judgement of the Messneger Muhammad SAWS, and complete compliance and after judgememt, sumbmission to the judgmement and satisfaction .

 

 

" Fa in tanaazactum fii shey in fa rudduuh ilaa Allah wa ilaa al rasuul" Markaad isku qabataan arrin, garta ugu taga Allah ( Kitaabka Quraanka ) iyo Rasuulka ( Hadeethka) And in case you dispute in a matter between you, then refer to Allah ( judgememts in Quraan ) and to the Messenger ( judgements in Hadeeth)"

 

" Falaa wa rabbik laa yuminoon, xataa yuxakkimuuka fiimaa beynahum, thumma laa yajiduu fii anfusihim xarajan mimmaa qadeyta, wa yusallimuu tasliimaa" Nay, by your Lord o Muhammad, they will not be true believers up until they appoint you as their judge for their disputes gracelfully without any dissatisfactin, and obey your judgement after you decree a judgement ."

 

 

4. All of the Messengers instructions and prohibitions must be taken as Law.

 

" Wa maa aataakum Al Rasuulu fa khuduuh, wa maa nahaakum canhu fantahuu" Wuxuu Rasuulku idiin keenay qaata, wuxuu idinka reebayna ka hadha" Follow (teachings ) brought to you by the Messenger of Allah SWT, and refrain (Prohibitions) he forbade that you do .

 

5. The hadeeth is none but a complementary instruction with Quraan.

 

" Wa maa yantiqu canil hawaa, in huwa illaa huwaa illaa waxyun yuuxaa" Kamana hadlo Rasuulka hawadiisa, ( wuxuu ku hadlo waa waxyi loo waxyooday" It is not out of personal opinion that the Messenger talks about, its a revelation that is revealed to him .

 

 

Now,

 

 

Warsame, You seem to have a definite purpose of concealing truth knowingly, selectively using verses out of context, to prove one thing, that Muslims should not follow the Quraan and Sunnah , rather they should use the Bible , if that is not your aim, please say it loud and tell us what is your aim in this discussion, if on the other hand your intention is to prove that the Quraan and Hadeeth are not the word of Allah, separating the Hadeeth from the Quraan, as Allah Said about your folks " Yufarriquuna beyna Allah wa Rusulih " they separate the Messnegers of Allah from Allah, then clealy say so. Stop beating around the bush. If you answer this with your usual wishy washy answers, the last drop of respect you had with the audience is out of window.

 

 

Nur

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Hadeeth Science, Simplified

 

 

The Prophet Muhammad SAWS spent 23 years delivering the message of Allah to the people of Allah in Arabia. His companions who have known him and his opponents alike respected him in a way no man was ever respected in History.

 

Prophet Mohammed SAWS, since his childhood was known for honesty, within his tribe , the Qureish, they called him Mohammed Al Ameen, or the honest. At age 40 when he suddenly the revelations came to him with the message of Islam, it caused great anguish among his closest relatives and tribe alike. Because his message was compromising the position of their predominant and highly regarded tribe among the Arabs. In a sense, the message was similar to a southern white fighting for the rights of the blacks in the 1800's can you imagine the uproar he could have caused?

 

In those 23 years of active Dawa (Preaching) of Islam and political and military life, his companions, listened and memorized his sermons and speeches, short and long. A father would narrate it to his children and so on. So while he lived there was no problem with authentication as he was alive and no one has attempted to make up stories. During his life, the prophet warned that anyone who falsifies a hadeeth is securing his permanent place in Hell. For that reason, the companions took great pains in not reporting a Hadeeth that they doubted its authenticity.

 

After his death, the Muslims saw the importance of compilation of the Hadeeth and a meticulous system of collection was set up for the collection and classification of the Hadeeths. This process grew into a new Islamic science in its own right called the sciences of the Hadeeth (al Cadl- wal- Tajreex, cilmul- isnaad, Al taraajum etc) These are sciences that set qualification standards of credibility for narrators of the Hadeeeths, ISNAAD, or the science of referencing, which was born with the Hadeeth science, and the AL Taraajum, which are the biographies of the reporters of the hadeeth, their genealogy, geography of their lands, cultures and everything related to the reporters of the hadeeth as a measure to qualify there assertions and motives.

 

As we will learn in this thread, the Muslim scholars went great lengths to ascertain the authenticity of the hadeeths for fear that imposters would make up hearsay hadeeth and they have actually created some. Because the product in question was the word of the holy Prophet SAWS to be transmitted to human kind, Islamic scholars invented the due-diligence and credit and background check system employed by the financial and the law enforcement industry today for the purpose of authentication.

 

 

Hadeeth Science and the compilation of a single Hadeeth was based on the following Criteria:

 

 

1. Definition of hadeeth.

 

2. Classification and glossary,

 

3. Methods of narration.

 

4. Biographies of Narrators

 

5. Science of Referencing (ISNAAD)

 

 

Today, we will cover

 

1. Definitions for starters

 

Linguistically, the meaning of ( Hadeeth ) is from the Arabic word HADATHA, or news, incident, event etc.

 

Hadeeth ( News) linguistically is antonym with (Qadeem) past, old, history,

Also, in the Arabic, the young kids are known as (Axdaath) new age ( not to be confused with new age religion).

 

The word Hadeeth in the religious context is reserved to all the news that were reported from the Prophet Mohammed SAWS. So the news needs verification. And the verifications of the story is the science of the Hadeeth. If the same rigorous method of cross examination, contextual integrity, background check of narrators, environment of narration, etc. If the same Verification process was applied today to Newsweek and Time Magazines, ( The contemporary Hadeeths ) which are more reliable than the King James Vesrion of the Bible, for example, they would not stand a chance in publishing a single issue, why you may ask, and the answer to that question leads to the next Chapter.

 

Types of Hadeeths

 

1. Category one : Saheeh (Correct)

 

A Hadeeth of this category enjoys the highest credibility, it is used in the Sharia as an augmentation of the explanation of the Quraan. Denial of a Hadeeth in this category is a grave sin and it can lead to Kufr.

 

This Category has many variations of Correctness, and ahadeeth to be ranked Sahih, or Correct must meet all of the criteria's of correctness, ( Political Correctness, is not considered in Islam as the case was for the drafting of the Nicene Creed of Christian Beliefs ). As an introductory survey, we will mention three of the elements of correctness for an example.

 

1. Correct in terms of the line of narration ( ISNAAD )

 

2. Correct in terms of the anthology ( Method of collection) Similar to police evidence collection methods ( Remember the Simpson Case?)

 

3. Correct in terms of the text itself (MATN).

 

So as you can deduce, a hadeeth can be correct in terms of line of narration and compilation, but still may fail the textual integrity, in this case we call this hadeeth a defective Hadeeth ( maa' lool ), failing to reach Sahih level, but still may qualify for other category as we will visit.

 

If on the other hand the hadeeth is textually correct, but the line of narration has a gab in the linkage of narrators, we call this hadeeth Broken chain hadeeth ( Munqadie).

 

If the hadeeth is compiled in a way different than the standard methods employed by the scolars ( Jumhur), then, that hadeeth does not enjoy the Saheeh category and we will visit the terminologies in the days to come in ShaAllah.

 

A hadeeth can further be Correct (Saheeh) for its own contents self support, ( This is like a travel document for a refugee, not a passport for a citizen) we call this category ( Saheeh li thaatih).

 

A Hadeeth can further be correct for the support of another Hadeeth only ( Saheeh li gheirih), or the Hadeeth can serve both roles.

 

In another category, the hadeeth can be saheeh on the conditions set by the compilers ( saheeh alaa shardeyhimaa), the compilers are Bukhaari and Muslim.

 

And the last category of this quick survey is the (Correct-but-Odd) category, (saheeh ghareeb), meaning the hadeeth has qualified for the saheeh category but was reported by only one narrator with top credibility clearance.

 

 

Criteria For the Classification of The Hadeeth

 

 

The following Five Criteria are used to classify a hadeeth to be a Saheeh

 

 

1. Al Sanad ( Chain of narrators ), The chain is continuous, no missing links.

 

2. Al Adaalah , (Narrators Character, must be flawlessly perfect, in terms of piety, credibility, courage, generosity, wisdom and good judgment) If this stringent condition is applied in politics, no US president or any other world leader today can fulfill such requirement.

 

3. Al Dhabd , ( meaning that the narrator have memorized the hadeeth beyond question, or recorded it in a tablet, and is able to recollect it with consistency whenever requested. This condition implies that he is mentally sharp, serious in delivering responsibilities. ( President Ronald Reagan would not have made it to the Whitehouse with his famous "I Do Not Recall" )

 

4. Cadam Al Shuduud , (A Hadeeth must not be an odd hadeeth) , Shuduud means that a narrator who is sufficiently credible provides a hadeeth that contradicts another hadeeth narrated by a more credible narrator, in terms of degree of their respective memorization competencies, lingusitic compprehension abilities ( Not failing their SAT) etc. ( This is analogous to two officers with different levels of security clearance presenting testimony to a judge to support a point of view. The testimony of the officer with the higher level of clearance supercedes the testimony of the lower clearance level officer)

 

5. Cadam Al E' laal . ( Free of any defective characteristic that compromises the hadeeth's credibility ) ,for example there is a mismatch in the names of the narrators in the chain of narration, like saying, Ronald Kennedy reported this hadeeth from John Reagan, so although this hadeeth may have met other stringent requirements, it clearly has a defect (E'llah) although when closely viewed may not present serious infringement of the rules, if we patiently reconstruct the sequence, like ( Ronald Reagan reported form John Kennedy).

 

 

So Any Hadeeth that passes those criteria with flying colors is called Saheeh in general terms, because, there is more to calling a hadeeth saheeh than this survey of ours can cover.

 

 

Category Two. The Hassan hadeeth

 

 

Hassan Hadeeth is not as flawless as the Correct ( Saheeh) hadeeth we have discussed above, but is nevertheless a reliable hadeeth that passed key Non-Fatal error criteria to qualify for applicability with caution, this is like the yellow light when driving, you have to proceed with caution, relying on Quraan as a check, but still leveraging its value on areas were other more reliable hadeeths are not available. ( This is like physicists relying on a theory until they find a better explanation) This Category though, is much more reliable than the next category of the Daciif, weak hadeeth.

 

Al Tirmidhi , One of the major compilers of the Hadeeths has defined the Hassan Category as follows : Any hadeeth , whose narrators:

 

1. Character is not a Questionable issue , while some of the narrators in the chain may be known to be forgetful in some past narrations , but have never lied knowingly at any point in their lives ever.

 

2. The Stature of this narrator do not rise to the level of the reporters of the Saheeh category in the above five scoring criteria ( Meaning, they have lower level clearance ), yet, the narrators meets some minimum acceptability standard (beyond scope of this brief survey) to be considered a reliable hadeeth.

 

 

Final Category is the (Daeef ) category ( Weak hadeeth, This category is by far more reliable than the Bible ) any hadeeth who fails in the above two categories is Weak, A weak hadeeth is not advised to be followed or applied in any legal issue nor settle an ambiguity in faith matters nor business law dsiputes. Unfortunately, Many of the Hadeeths floating and causing confusion in the Muslim world belong to this last category, which promts the attack on the Sunnah and Hadeeth . This type of hadeeth, is the kind of evidence a Judge will not hesitate to throw out of his court.

 

 

Nur

 

2002 e-Nuri Sunnah Service

Modern explanation of Legacy Traditions

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Nur wrote: Final Category is the (Daeef ) category ( Weak hadeeth, This category is by far more reliable than the Bible ) any hadeeth who fails in the above two categories is Weak, A weak hadeeth is not advised to be followed or applied in any legal issue nor settle an ambiguity in faith matters nor business law dsiputes. Unfortunately, Many of the Hadeeths floating and causing confusion in the Muslim world belong to this last category, which promts the attack on the Sunnah and Hadeeth . This type of hadeeth, is the kind of evidence a Judge will not hesitate to throw out of his court.

 

I would just add that one more category in the science of Hadeeth is Mawdluuc (موضوع), which means outright forgery (with evil intent) and phony imitation of the words of Mustafa to adulterate its meanings. This wicked practice has been halted by impossing strict requirements in accepting the narrtion of Hadeeth.

 

I hold the view that the authentic Bible was infected by the same plague and corroded by its deadly virus.

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Xiinfaniin

 

Jazaakallahu Khairan for your comment, thee Mwduuc category is rather interesting, as many benevlont as well as malicious narrators introduced Hadeeths that were fabricated ( Mowduuc) . Ther was an instance that a man was caught redhanded creating a Mowduuc Hadeeth, the hadeeth was reenforcing that Muslims should do more good althogh it was false. So, when this man was asked why he lied about the Messneger SAWS, he defended himself by saying that he did not lie against teh Messneger of Allah SAWS, rather, he lied FOR him. Today, people call this type of a lie, a white lie, but in reality, there is nothing right, or white about a lie, any lie.

 

 

Nur

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Refreshing the Hadeeth Science and topic for your viewing in this holy month, relax and read, let the wisdom of Hadeeth settle in your head.

 

 

Nur