God delivered the final testament to humans fourteen centuries ago; a book that confirms and consolidates preceding divine testaments, confining divinity to God’s scriptures only, disowning any external discourse.
Had we, or any previous generation, taken time with the book and contemplated its verses, we would have realized that we can’t take it literally, if we don’t take it exclusively.
{ذٰلِكَ الكِتابُ لا رَيبَ ۛ فيهِ ۛ هُدًى لِلمُتَّقينَ}
“This Book no doubt, therein, is guidance for the pious”
v(2:2)
A prophet of God would never dare nullify one of God’s verses, and when we identify him with those proclaimed hadiths, we’re simply accusing him of doing so. Therefore, prophet Muhammad banned people from writing things about him, which is a fact that is ironically recorded in the very same hadiths books whose followers take as scripture.
Muhammad’s disapproval: hadiths invalidating hadiths
Perhaps the most straightforward way to nullify hadiths would be the disapproval of the prophet to whom these sayings belong. Prophet Muhammad detested finding people writing things about him banned people from recording things about him and warned them about it.
"Do not write anything from me except Quran. Anyone who wrote anything other than the Quran shall erase it."
Sahih Muslim: 3004
It is also recorded that the prophet made them collect their writings and burn them when he figured they weren’t writing Quranic verses.
We were sitting down writing what we hear from the prophet, he came to us and said: “What are you writing?”, we said: “what we’re hearing from you”, the prophet said: “A book besides God’s book?” … They then collected all their writings and burned them.
Jami Al-Sunan: 585
Some sunnni scholars claim that it was banned during the prophet’s time only, so that Muslims don’t confuse it with the Quran, which is another absurd lie. The Quran was fully compiled and unified during Uthman ibn Effan's reign, and the historical record states that hadiths were forbidden even after Uthman’s death.
Zayd Ibn Thabit visited the Khalifa Mu'aawiyah (more than 30 years after the Prophet's death), and told him a story about the Prophet. Mu'aawiyah liked the story and ordered someone to write it down, so Zayd said. "the messenger of God ordered us never to write anything of his hadith", and he erased it.
Abu Dawud: 3647
The ban on Hadiths persisted after the prophet’s reign, and was strongly enforced by his loyal companions. Historically, early caliphs had to warn, threaten, and even incarcerate defiers who do not abide to the ban.
Trustful companions: Caliphs upholding the hadith ban
Although the prophet’s efforts were effective at restricting writings, oral hadiths were ubiquitous. People were quoting the prophet and telling his stories more often than can be verified by his companions, and because there were no corroboration guidelines or verifiable discoursers to hold responsibility, some people started forging stories and falsely quoting the prophet.
Each legitimate caliph who was elected after the prophet’s death in year 632 A.D had to deal with the hadith epidemic. The first of them being Abu Bakr, who had a discussion with Muslims regarding hadiths right after the prophet’s death.
After the demise of the Prophet, Abu-Bakr gathered people and said: "You are reporting about the Messenger of God inconsistent narrations. People coming after you will be engaged in more intense discrepancy. Therefore, do not report anything about the Messenger of God, and if anyone asks you, you should refer to the Book of God as the arbitrator. You should thus deem lawful whatever is lawful therein and deem unlawful whatever is unlawful therein."
Tazkirat Al Huffaz - Abu Bakr - part 1:1, page 2
Abu Bakr was succeeded by Omar ibn El-Khattab, who had stricter tendencies with policy defiers. This was one of the ventures he made to tackle hadiths during his reign:
Caliph Omar took to the platform and said: "O people, I have heard that books have started to appear in your hands. The more proper and accurate they are, the better. So, no one should keep his book without bringing it over for me to check it." People who wrote about the prophet assumed he wanted to see their books, so they brought them. He collected the books and set them on fire, and then said: "that was my demand and the demand of the people of the book (Quran)". Then he wrote to his workers saying: "whoever has from the sunna (prophet's sayings and practices) anything, must ruin it."
Tadween Al Sunna - page 5
It is apparent that some people never stopped writing things about the prophet despite the policies, so Omar eventually started threatening the deviants and punishing them, particularly a man in the name of Abu Huraira. He was persistent with spreading uncorroborated hadiths despite Omar’s warnings. Eventually, it is reported that:
Omar incarcerated Abu Huraira with a group of other hadith spreaders, and they were not set free until Omar died.
Kitab Al-Irshad (Khalili) part 1 - page 213
After the civil war (661 A.D) the Umayyads gained power, turning the Caliphate into a blood run monarchy. Their first ruler Muawiya took control of state affairs, and started to loosen up restrictions on oral hadiths.
Muawiya told people to start spreading hadiths, and that “Omar had scared people from talking about the prophet”
Tazkirat Al Huffaz - Abu Bakr - part 1:1, page 7
After Abu Huraira was freed, he started to discourse hadiths again, cheerfully celebrating the absence of Omar.
Abu Huraira is recorded to have been saying: “if I were discoursing hadiths like these to you in the days of Omar, he would have strikken me”
Tazkirat Al Huffaz - Abu Bakr - part 1:1, page 7
Although hadiths began being orally communicated in the open, the ban on writing them remained in place, until the the reign of the eighth Umayyad ruler; Omar Abdel-Aziz (717 A.D).
Ban cancellation: Officially written hadiths
During the reign of Omar ibn Abdel-Aziz, the nation was economically and culturally thriving. However, the hadith epidemic had reached its peak; people were quoting the prophet everywhere and discoursing events that no one has ever heard. Omar believed that loose talks and oral discoursing hurt the prophet’s integrity, especially since talks are untraceable and lies were spreading with no accountability. Therefore, he gave an order to institutionalize haiths, and ‘verified’ written hadiths began spreading. This included hadiths composed by the very same person who Omar ibn El-Khattab had incarcerated for lies; Abu Huraira, who is now the narrator of 5,374 out of the 7,275 hadiths in the ‘Sahih’ collection mainstream Muslims hold so dearly.
Although Omar ibn Abdel-Aziz might have had good intentions, his defiance of Abu Bakr and Omar ibn El-Khattab was the cornerstone of today’s unhinged religion we should hesitate to call Islam. Saudi Arabia is today’s main composer of Hadith books, managed and dictated from within the heart of Mecca; Umm al-Qura University, where the deviated El-Shaarawy studied hadith, before coming back to Egypt as head of Al-Azhar, importing and enabling the Saudi agenda through a tranquil facade that appealed to most Egyptians.
The majority of Muslims in the world now ascribe to Abu Huraira’s teachings, and call themselves the ‘Sunni’ sect, and throughout the centuries they’ve worked collectively and effectively to hush any person who doubts them, shunning history and fabricating stories, to make sure their ugly truth never becomes believable.
If God had willed, he could have incited Muhammad on Abu Huraira and his likes, but he told his prophet to let them be:
"And that is how we made for every prophet his enemies, devils from among humans and jinn, who inspire each other with flashy sayings, deceptively. Had your Lord wished, they would not have done it. So leave them with what they fabricate, so that toward it may incline the hearts of those who do not believe in the Hereafter, and so that they may be pleased with it and commit to what they are committing."
(6:112-123)
God knew all along what this would lead to, and he knew that only untrue believers would find it appealing, and he makes it very clear in the Quran, that believers should not refer to any external sources for guidance nor associate anyone with him.
Hadiths rebuked in the Quran: the only guide for true Muslims
Follow what has been sent down to you from your Lord, and do not follow besides Him any masters, little do you heed.
(7:3)
Followers of each version of the Book have their own added material; human composed teachings that become canonized and treated as scripture. Muslims divinized their prophet, deriving most of their religious practices from hadiths and actions allegedly recorded about him and his companions. God is explicitly accusing Muslims of worshiping, besides Him, people and narratives He never authorized.
And they worship, besides God, things He never sent down with an authority and about which they have no knowledge. And for the wrongdoers there will be no helper.
(22:71)
Preceding generations gradually enabled this agenda over centuries, expanding it, and passing it on their offspring in an environment that challenges anyone who dares question it, leaving newer generations shunned and dictated, either ascribing to their teachings, or having to believe what is unbelievable about God, sinking in cluelessness with each time they look for what they’ve been taught just to find it missing in the book, in a blinding apparent discrepancy from hadiths.
God detests those who take judges besides him, and affirms that his book is fully detailed:
“Do I seek other than God for a judge, while it is he who has sent down to you the Book fully detailed. And those whom we have given the Book know that it has been sent down from your Lord with the truth; so do not be one of the doubters.”
(6:114)
God refers to hadiths by their name in his verses:
“These are the verses of God that we recite to you with truth. So, in what hadith (discourse) after God and his verses do they believe?”
(45:6)
“Do they not look into the realm of the heavens and the earth and everything that God has created and [think] that perhaps their appointed time has come near? So, in what hadith (discourse) after it (the Quran) do they believe?”
(7:185)
“Woe on that day to the deniers. In what hadith (discourse) after it do they believe?”
(77:49-50)
Most followers of hadiths believe in the prophet’s intercession (شفاعة), where Muhammad is expected (according to hadiths) to intercede (with God) for Muslims, absolving them off their sins on the day of judgement - a real Jesus déjà vu. The term is used as it is in God’s verses:
“God who created the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them in six days then settled on the throne, without him you have no guardian or intercessor. Will you not take admonition?”
(32:4)
"And warn by it (the Quran) those who fear being mustered toward their Lord, without whom they have neither any guardian nor any intercessor, so that they may revere."
(6:51)
"And revere a day when no soul compensates anything for another, neither will any ransom be accepted from it, nor will any intercession benefit it, nor will they be helped."
(2:123)
Perhaps the most blasphemous aspect of Hadithists is their divinization of Qudsi hadiths; mostly alleged words of God that apparently didn’t make it to the book, but were deilvered nonetheless to Muhammad by the angel Gabriel. The most renowned Qudsi hadith is the one about the five pillars of Islam, which were a product of an absurd supposed conversation between the prophet and Gabriel.
God addresses these hadiths with a few alarming verses, which appear to accuse Muslims of worshipping his prophet, taking his creatures for lords, and verging on disbelief:
"And indeed from among them is a group who twist their tongues so that you may suppose that it is from the Book, but it is not from the Book, and they say ‘It is from God’, though it is not from God, and they attribute lies to God, and they know it. It was never for a human being that God grants the Book, the reign and the prophethood, to then say to people be servants to me instead of God, but rather signify the Lord in what you teach from the Book and in what you study. Nor would he command you to take the angels and the prophets for Lords, Is he commanding you to disbelieve after having been Muslims?"
v(3:78-80)
So, not only does God refer to our belief in hadiths as an abomination, God also addresses the internal lies of hadiths, like the prophet’s intercession claims, or his unwarranted relationship with Gabriel. In our day and age, anyone who sees these verses and doesn’t take a pause to ruminate on his faith, doesn’t take his faith seriously.
"He is the living one, there is no god but him. So supplicate him, exclusively devoted to him in faith. All praise belongs to God, Lord of the worlds."
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