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Bigotry:
The Dark Danger

Our Prophet (pbuh) Did Not Allow any

Hadith to be Written Down

We know from historical records, and the first hadiths that have

come down to us, that there were no written hadiths in the time of
the Prophet (pbuh) or of the Four Caliphs. Al-Harawi says this on
the subject: "Neither the companions of the Prophet, nor those followers in
point of time, the ones that lived after Muhammad was dead, but had con-
versed with at least one of his companions wrote any of his sayings. They
just transmitted them by word of mouth. There is no exception of this out-

side of one or two instances. Being afraid of their sinking into oblivion,
Omar ibn Abdul Aziz, in a letter addressed to Abu Bakr al-Hazm, wanted
him to try to research traditions and have them copied." Yazid ibn Abd al-
Maliq removed Abu Bakr al-Hazm and those working with him

from their posts on the death of Omar ibn Abdul Aziz. The next
caliph, Hisham, is regarded as the first person to collect the hadiths
of az-Zuhri. This dates back to two or three centuries after the death
of our Prophet (pbuh).

There is information in other sources confirming that our
Prophet (pbuh) prohibited the writing of hadiths. Some of them are
as follows:

Abu Saeed al-Khudry said, "I asked the Messenger of God
a permission to write his hadiths, but he refused to give me

a permission." (Taq-yeed Al-Ilm)

One day, the Messenger of God came to us while we were
recording the Hadith. He asked "What are you writing
down?" "These are Hadiths that we have heard from you,"
answered we. "Do you want to depend upon a book other

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