PART 5 Topics of Attributed/Ascripted Hadeeths After talking about the concept and procedure of attribution, we now point to the subjects of attributed/ascripted Hadeeth, or in another word, what attribution brought to us: Topics contradicting Quran and Islam. All Hadeeths can be categorized into 3 main categories: 1) The Unknown. 2) Legislations. 3) Ethics or encouragement and discouragement thereof. 1) About the Unknown: They attributed to the Prophet(pbuh) Hadeeths reporting news of the past eras, before his existence, also, hadiths about the unknown future on earth, and Hadeeths about the unknown events of the Hereafter such as signs of resurrection, its events, the gathering, intercession, ways of Heaven and Hell which are all but lies because the Quran emphasizes many times that the Prophet(pbuh) knows not the Unknown and if he did he would have collected all sorts of good and would have never been subjected to harm, and that he knows not what would happen to him or to others in the future, and that he knows none of the signs of Judgment Day nor its date or time, and that he is not entitled to speak about all the previous hidden issues. This can be found in the following Quran phrases: ( Al-Anaam # 6: 50 Say: I do not say to you that I have the treasures of Allah, and I do not know the unseen, and I do not say to you that I am an angel. I only follow that which is revealed to me. Say: Is the blind equivalent to the seeing? Will you not then think? ) (Al-Aaraaf 7: 187 They ask you about the hour, when will be its arrival? Say: Its knowledge is only with my Lord; none will reveal it at its time except He. It lays heavily upon the heavens and the earth; it will not come upon you except suddenly. They ask you as if you were hiding it. Say: Its knowledge is only with Allah, but most of the people do not know.-- 7: 188 Say: I do not possess for myself benefit or harm except what Allah has willed; and if I had known the unseen, I could have acquired much of the good and no evil would have touched me. I am only a warner and the giver of good tidings to a people who believe.) – (Al-Ahqaf 46: 9 Say: I am not an invention among the messengers, nor do I know what will be done with me or with you. I only follow that which is revealed to me, and I am not except an obvious warner. )-(Al-Jinn 72: 25 Say: I do not know if what you are promised is near or if my Lord will make for it a long period.-- 72: 26 The Knower of the unseen, and He does not reveal His (knowledge of the) unseen to anyone.-- 72: 27 Except whom He has approved of any messenger; for indeed, He sends before him and behind him observers.) & (Al-Naziat 79: 5 And those (angels) who regulate affair.-- 79:42 They ask you about the hour: When will be its arrival?)... These are just examples. To the same subject of knowing the Unknown they attributed to the Prophet(pbuh) Hadeeths talking about his Intersession on the Day of Resurrection, these Hadeeths contradict the Quran which limits Intersession to Allah alone suggested by angels when they submit the good deeds of the righteous people on the Day of Judgment, but the Prophet(pbuh) himself cannot benefit or harm anyone, as stated in the Quran in the following phrases: (Al-Baqarra 2: 48 And fear a day when no soul will avail another in any thing, nor will intercession be accepted from it, nor will compensation be taken from it, nor will they be made to win.)--, (2: 133 Or were you witnesses when death came to Yaqoub, when he said to his sons: What will you worship after me? They said: We will worship your God and the God of your fathers, Ibrahim and Ismail and Iss-haq, one God, and to Him we are submitters)....(2: 254 O you who have believed! Spend from what We have provided for you before a day comes in which there will be no exchange and no friendship and no intercession. And the unbelievers are the unjust)... (2: 255 (He is) Allah, there is no god except Him, the Ever-Living, the Ever-Subsisting. Neither slumber overtakes Him nor sleep. To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth. Who is it that can intercede with Him except by His permission? He knows what is before them and what will be after them, and they cannot encompass a thing of His knowledge except what He wills. His chair extends over the heavens and the earth, and their preservation tires Him not. And He is the High, the Great.) – (Taha 20: 109 On that day, intercession will not benefit except the one to whom the Compassionate has given permission and has accepted from him a saying... 20: 110 He knows what is before them and what will be after them; and they do not encompass it in knowledge.) – (Al-Anbyaaa 21: 26 And they said: The Compassionate has taken a child. Glory be to Him. Rather, they are honored servants... 21: 27 They do not precede Him in any saying, and by His command they work...21: 28 He knows what is before them and what will be after them, and they cannot intercede except for one whom He approves. And they are, from fear of Him, apprehensive.)–( Loqman 31: 33 O people! Fear your Lord and fear a day when a father will not avail his child, nor will a child avail his father a thing. Indeed, the promise of Allah is true, so let not the life of this world delude you and be not deluded about Allah by (any) deceit. 31: 34 Indeed, Allah has knowledge of the hour and sends down the rain and knows what is in the wombs. And no soul knows what it will earn tomorrow; and no soul knows in what land it will die. Indeed Allah is all Knowing, all Acquainted.) - (Al-Zomor 39: 19 Is one against whom the word of torture is justified (like others)? Can you save one who is in the fire?) – (Al-Zokhrof 43: 86 And those upon whom they call other than Him do not possess intercession, except one who testifies to the truth while they know.) –( Qaaf 50: 21 And every soul will come, with it a driver and a witness. )- (Al-Najm 53: 26 And how many angels are there in the heavens whose intercessions will not avail anything except after Allah has given permission to whom He wills and approves.). With all these, Hadeeths made the lie of human intersession a known fact of religion while it is a dangerous factor in deteriorating the ethics of Muslims. 2) On Legislations: The attributed to the Prophet(pbuh) that he was setting rules and laws, this contradicts a fundamental Quranic truth which states that the Prophet(pbuh) when asked about anything he would wait for the Revelation to come down to him with the answer (They ask you about so and so, tell them so). When we look at the subjects he was asked about and waited for the answer to come from heaven, we find that he could have answered on his own from his personal general knowledge like when he was asked about the crescents: “They ask you about the crescents, Say: They are signs to mark fixed periods of time for mankind and for the pilgrimage” (Al-Baqarah #2, 189). Also when he was asked about the orphans, Quran encourages the kind treatment of orphans in many locations but still they would ask the Prophet(pbuh) about the same subject again and again and every time he wouldn’t answer on his own but waited for the Revelation which came down to emphasize the previous commands to treat the orphans well and care for them, like what Allah says in Al-Baqrah #2, 23: “And they ask you concerning orphans, Say: The best thing is to deal honestly with their property, and if you mix your affairs with theirs, then they are your brothers”. And in the subject of Zihar(swearing that your wife is forbidden to you as your mother is), which is a form of divorce, a woman insisted that the Prophet(pbuh) rules in her case and she insisted and insisted and insisted, but the Prophet refused to speak and waited for the Revelation which came down with the answer from Allah Almighty: “Indeed Allah has heard the statement of (her) that disputes with you concerning her husband and complains to Allah and Alla hears the argument between you both, verily, Allah is All-Hearer, All-Seer” (Al-Mojadalah 1). So the woman was in a hurry and kept on disputing with the Prophet(pbuh) to render a ruling in her case but he kept on refusing, then when she despaired, she complained to Allah, the Exalted, so the judgment came down. And so on: They ask him for rules and he refuses and waits for the rule to come as a Revelation from heaven. So when Allah says in the Quran: “And they ask you for instructions concerning women, say: Allah instructs you about them” (Al-Nisaa #4, 127). Here Allah didn’t say to the Prophet(pbuh): “Instruct them” because Allah only instructs and legislates so he said “Say: Allah instructs you”. A similar phrase can be found in the same Sura 4, phrase 176 ( They ask you for a ruling. Say: Allah gives you a ruling concerning those who die while leaving behind no wife or descendant, if someone dies who does not have a child but has a sister, then for her is half of what he leaves, and he should inherit her if she does not have a child; but if they are two, then for them is two-thirds of what he leaves. And if they are siblings of men and women, then for the male is the portion of two females. Allah explains to you lest you go astray; and Allah is about everything, Knowing.). In brief, the mission of the Prophet(pbuh) was limited to: conveying the rules and instructions from Allah, with him neither ruling nor instructing. And when he was asked for an opinion or a rule he would wait the answer coming from the Revelation even in subjects of which he knows. His Way was to apply the Revelations revealed to him with his human faculties and with his era’s resources. This is what was at the time of the Prophet(pbuh) which confirms that Islam has only one source which is the Quran. But we have the right to strive in implementing the legislation of Quran according the circumstances of our time. Our conclusions may be right or wrong and we are responsible for it. This way Islam becomes beyond time and place, well kept in its legislation till the Judgment Day is upon us immune to our mistakes and sins. But by relying on Attribution many false rules contradicting the Quran were attributed to the Prophet(pbuh) such as Stoning, punishment for apostasy , Hisba:(to hold accountable, responsible) and giving rights to the Ruler to own the land, above and beneath. In addition to inventing Attribution for these contradicting laws, the Abbasid era came up with a new concept to void and abolish Quranic legislations with the claim of Scripting/Abrogation (The cancellation of a Quranic rule by another Quranic verse or by a Hadeeth) in spite of the fact that Scripting in the Quran and in Arabic means assertion and writing and not omission and cancellations, (Please refer to our book “Quran is Enough”).
Posted on: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 22:56:13 +0000
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