{"id":960,"date":"2012-07-23T12:13:49","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T10:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/web\/?p=960"},"modified":"2012-07-23T12:13:49","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T10:13:49","slug":"fabrication-of-hadith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/?p=960","title":{"rendered":"Fabrication of hadith"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Fabrication of hadith \u2013 1<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Saturday, October 3, 2009<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">As Salamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullah<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Source : http:\/\/www.readingi slam.com\/ servlet\/Satellit e?cid=1248187606 790&amp;pagename=IslamOnlin e-English- AAbout_Islam\/ AskAboutIslamE\/ AskAboutIslamE<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">According to Muslims, the main sources of legislation are the Quran, which Muslims believe is the word of God, and the Sunnah or Hadith (sayings, deeds, and tacit approvals) of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). The Quran is well-protected and preserved as Allah (God) promised to protect it against any corruption or alternation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">With regards to the issue of fabrication in the hadiths of Prophet Muhammad, let&#8217;s first define what a fabricated hadith is. A fabricated hadith is a hadith which is falsely ascribed to the Prophet while in fact he did not pronounce it. It is not permissible to narrate such hadiths.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Most of the fabricated hadiths were introduced in Muslim literature by the fabricators themselves. They forged the statements and invented the chain of transmission (called isnad) from their own imagination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">As for the beginning of fabrication, it is very difficult to determine the beginning of the fabrication of hadiths. Some scholars maintain that the fabrication of hadith took place during the lifetime of the Prophet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Other scholars views that the fabrication started during the caliphate of Ali ibn Abi Talib, the Prophet&#8217;s cousin. Another group of scholars say that the fabrication was introduced in hadith literature during the caliphate of the third Caliph Uthman ibn Affan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The fabricated hadiths can be divided into two categories: intentionally fabricated hadith, which is called hadith mawdu (invented or fabricated hadith), and unintentionally fabricated hadith, which is referred to as hadith batil (invalid hadith).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Some of the causes on intentional fabrication include: fabrication by heretics, political differences, favor seekers, storytellers, human frailties, ignorant ascetics, and the prejudice of the fabricator for his or her own town, race, or imam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0Some of the causes of unintentional fabrication include: novelty, mistakes, inaccuracy, indirect transmission, failure to copy, lack of qualification, and lost books.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Fabricated hadiths \u2013 2<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">, October 3, 2009<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Signs of Fabrication in Hadiths<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">On the basis of the methods of textual criticism developed by Muslim scholars of Hadith, the following signs were considered indicators of the occurrence of fabrication:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">1- Disproportionately high rewards for small good deeds, or disproportionately severe punishments for ordinary sins,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">2- Laudation of persons, tribes, and particular places,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">3- Detailed prophecies of future events with dates,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">4- Remarks by the Prophet that do not match his prophetical position, or expressions that may not be suitable for him,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">5- Non-Arabic style or structure,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">6- Fanciful statements that the Prophet could not have made,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">7- Statements claimed to have been made by the Prophet in the presence of many Companions, but which are not reported by any of them, and<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">8- Phraseology that resembles that of the Sufi masters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Posted by Baseerath at Saturday, October 03, 2009\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">http:\/\/baseerath.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/fabrication-of-hadith-1.html<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fabrication of hadith \u2013 1 Saturday, October 3, 2009 As Salamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullah Source : http:\/\/www.readingi slam.com\/ servlet\/Satellit e?cid=1248187606 790&amp;pagename=IslamOnlin e-English- AAbout_Islam\/ AskAboutIslamE\/ AskAboutIslamE According to Muslims, the main sources of legislation are&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[134],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prophet-muhammad","tag-hadith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}