‘The Best Centuries’ – How should we understand history? – 2
MORE THAN A TOOL for the transmission of hadiths, the isnād informed history, politics and power. ‘Alī al-Dayrī’s work The Best of Centuries:…
The Sahih hadith collections – between Sunnis and Shi‘is
THIS IS HARDLY SURPRISING, in that each call the other by opprobrious names: Sunnīs call the Shī‘a Rāfiḍīs. The Rāfiḍa group arose when…
The crisis of Islamic thought: Hadith science as an example – 2
BY CIRCULATING IN THE ORBIT of these narrators and their fallacies and errors, hadith scholars departed from the circle of…
The crisis of Islamic thought: Hadith science as an example – 1
THE SUFIS, for example, have their Shaykh Abdullah Al-Hararī, founder of the Al-Aḥbāsh group in Lebanon, then there is Shaykh…
Myths of Islamists – The ‘Sahih’ Hadith Collections
LET US TAKE A LOOK at what the writings of these two denominations say about these ten books and make…
On the misuse of Hadith
THIS IS ESPECIALLY so since the first systematic attempt at evaluation (within the limits of the circumstances and tools of…
Islam between fiqh and hadith – which comes first?
DISAGREEMENT AMONG the hadith narrators was a constant and at times reached the point of mutual insults and takfīr.[2] The…
Hadith, the biggest scam in Islamic history – 2
AS A RESULT the question becomes closed when the hadith are included in one of the books of Sihāh, Masānīd…
Hadith, the biggest scam in Islamic history – 1
A PERPLEXING ISSUE indeed. All the criteria for accepting the validity of a hadith focus upon the chain of transmission…
A culture of fabricated Hadith
HADITH BEGAN to be fabricated during the lifetime of the Prophet himself and men became famous for their expertise in…