LIGHTS ON THE MUHAMMADAN SUNNAH or DEFENCE OF THE HADITH pdf

the best of Arabic-speaking rhetoricians.. . ve them — that the traditions con-tained in the Sunnah books all being true and correct, with their wordsand denotations, and that all Muslims should absolutely admit themwith whatever they contained!!When reading the hadith: “Whoever said lies against me deliberately, heshould occupy his abode in fire”, I became so astonished of such restric-tion that could’ “never be issued by a messenger who was delegatedwith truth and commanded to do it, forbidding from lying (kidhb) andwarning against it. Since it is quite obvious for all that to lie is to tellabout something in a way contrary to its truth and reality, whether beingproduced by Muhammad or other than him.I kept on this belief till eagerness to realize the truth motivated me toseek and search for the origin and narration of the hadith, with its bio-graphy from the correct sources and authentic asanid, hoping to get ac-quainted with that which relieves me of the straitness in my bossom,eliminating my inside disturbance. This was due to the fact that thissensitive matter has never enjoyed an all inclusive compilation thatcould satisfy the researcher’s greed, and make the seeker’s quest to cometrue I persisted for a long time on investigation and seeking for truth,sparing no book that would be beneficial even with one word to help mereaching my sought quest, trying my best without giving up my effortsor submitting to the self calls to take rest and relieving it of this toilfulprocess. I countered these calls with calling my self to patience, forbear-ance and persistence, till my trip was concluded with reaching amazingrealities and extremely critical results! As I came to know that all hadithbooks were almost devoid of what they called sahih (correct) or evenhasan (good) tradition, which was cited and recorded according to thevery words and syntax of sentences uttered by the Prophet (S). I foundout also that those traditions which they termed as sahih, had been nomore than denotations as conceived by some narrators, with only veryfew words thatmight have remained with no change in several short traditions, and invery rare cases. It became quite obvious for me that what they used tocall as a correct hadith, was in fact veracious only in the perspective of itsnarrators, just indicating that al-Bukhari and Muslim concurred on21