Salam,
There is claimed that the sunnah
has the same status as the Quran and they furnished the following verse of the
Quran to justify their belief:
The vanguard (of Islam)- the
first of those who forsook (their homes) and of those who gave them aid, and
(also) those who follow them in (all) good deeds,- well- pleased is God with
them, as are they with Him: for them hath He prepared gardens under which rivers
flow, to dwell therein forever: that is the supreme felicity. (Surah 9:100)
They claimed in this verse,
Allah is saying that the Muhajirin (those who migrated from Mecca to Medina)
and the Ansar (the people of Medina) and those righteous people that came after
them have been promised heaven.
Now, how can Allah promise
heaven to these people when they are the very same ones who transmitted the
hadith to us? As a matter of fact they are the same people that passed the
Qur'an down to us. The Quran is passed on to us by "Mutawattir"
narrations. Mutawattir narrations are narrations that have been transmitted by
so many people that it would be impossible for all of the transmitters to
fabricate such a narration. However, we have an enormous amount of Mutawattir
hadith. We have a list of Mutawatir that teach things that are not taught in
the Quran. How can you reject their authenticity with no objective evidence?
They further claimed If we
are expected to believe that ALL the Muslims could have corrupted Islam by
introducing the Hadith then to maintain consistency we must also conclude that
it was very likely for them to have corrupted the Qur'an as well.
Thus they claimed that
whether one follow the Quran in full or half of its verses, it must go together
with the hadiths.
The
Hadith/Sunnah cannot be compared to the Quran
However this belief that the
same people were responsible to also bring the Hadith down to us is rather skeptical
if the next verse after Surah 9:100 is taken as stated below:
Certain of the desert Arabs
round about you are hypocrites, as well as (desert Arabs) among the Medina
folk: they are obstinate in hypocrisy: thou knowest them not: We know them:
twice shall We punish them: and in addition shall they be sent to a grievous penalty.
(Surah 9:101)
There is no guarantee that
all those in 9:100 made the grade to heaven some may have been fallen in the
category of the above and they may be the ones who transmit the hadith but
certainly not the Quran. The Quran unlike the hadith was not being sifted from
millions of hadith to those of the so called “authentic” ones. God guaranteed
every verse of the Quran is entirely from Him and Him only:
As to thee, the Qur'an is
bestowed upon thee from the presence of one who is wise and all-knowing. (Surah
27:6)
This Qur'an is not such as
can be produced by other than Allah; on the contrary it is a confirmation of
(revelations) that went before it, and a fuller explanation of the Book -
wherein there is no doubt - from the Lord of the worlds. (Surah 10:37)
And God confirmed even the
writing of it into a book form is done during the Prophet’s time and was
written by pious people and also kept in memory since then. Unfortunate the
Hadiths did not have these sanctified criteria to be God’s Words:
Move not thy tongue
concerning the (Qur'an) to make haste therewith. It is for Us to collect it and
to promulgate it: But when We have promulgated it, follow thou its recital (as
promulgated): Nay more, it is for Us to explain it (and make it clear) (Surah
75:16-19)
That We might make it a
Message unto you, and that ears (that should hear the tale and) retain its
memory should bear its (lessons) in remembrance. (Surah 69:12)
By no means (should it be
so)! For it is indeed a Message of instruction: Therefore let whoso will, keep
it in remembrance. (It is) in Books held (greatly) in honor, Exalted (in
dignity), kept pure and holy, (Written) by the hands of scribes- Honorable and
Pious and Just. (Surah 80:11-16)
But more important is that
why should the Hadith be leveled with the Quran when God says that the Quran is
the best guidance for Muslims and it is complete and in detail:
Ramadhan is the (month) in
which was sent down the Qur'an, as a guide to mankind, also clear (Signs) for
guidance and judgment (Between right and wrong). (Surah 2:185)
And this is a Book which We
have revealed as a blessing: so follow it and be righteous, that ye may receive
mercy: (Surah 6:155)
There is not an animal (that
lives) on the earth, or a being that flies on its wings, but (forms part of)
communities like you. Nothing have we omitted from the Book, and they (all)
shall be gathered to their Lord in the end. (Surah 6:38).
Say: "Shall I seek for
judge other than Allah? - When He it is Who hath sent unto you the Book,
explained in detail." They know full well, to whom We have given the Book,
that it hath been sent down from thy Lord in truth. Never be then of those who
doubt.
(Surah 6:114)
God does not coin the word
the “Prophet Sunnah” in the Quran, this is a clear fabrication there is no
Prophet sunnah but that being mentioned in the Quran is God’s Sunnah and this
is the one to be followed by all prophets:
(This was Our) way (Sunnah)
with the messengers We sent before thee: thou wilt find no change in Our ways
(Our Sunnah). (Surah 17:77)
And the Prophet Muhammad
(Pbuh) was commanded to say:
"I am no bringer of
new-fangled doctrine among the messengers, nor do I know what will be done with
me or with you. I follow but that which is revealed to me by inspiration; I am
but a Warner open and clear." (Surah 46:9)
"O men! I am sent unto
you all, as the Messenger of Allah, to Whom belongeth the dominion of the
heavens and the earth: there is no god but He: it is He That giveth both life
and death. So believe in Allah and His Messenger, the Unlettered Prophet, who
believeth in Allah and His words: follow him that (so) ye may be guided."
(Surah 7:158)
"Allah speaketh the Truth: follow the
religion of Abraham, the sane in faith; he was not of the Pagans." (Surah
3:95)
Thus the command to obey
Allah is obeying the Messenger who followed Allah Words from His Book the
Quran!
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