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Bigotry:
The Dark Danger

Some of the Companions of Our Prophet

(pbuh) Objected to Collecting Hadith

A great majority of the prominent Companions strictly

held on to the advice of our Prophet (pbuh):

Narrated 'Abdul-'Aziz bin Rufai': Shaddad bin
Ma'quil and I entered upon Ibn Abbas. Shaddad bin
Ma'quil asked him, "Did the Prophet leave anything
(besides the Qur'an)?" He replied, "He did not leave
anything except what is between the two bindings (of
the Qur'an)." (Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 6, p. 441,
Hadith No:5019)

Ibn Abbas forbade writing down hadiths and said:

"Those nations before you have gone astray because
they came up with books like these." (Ibn 'Adb al-
Barr, Jami' Bayan al-'Ilm WaFadlih)

Abdullah Ibn Mas'ud came with pages of hadiths and
said, "Verily this book contains sedition, delusion
and heresy. The past nations who had Divine Books

perished because they followed such books and neg-
lected the Book of God. I hereby ask anyone who
knows where such books are found to lead me to
them. I swear by Him Who prevails my soul that if I
know that such a book is found in Dayr al-Hind [a
village in Syria], I will bring them even if I have to go
there on foot." Then he asked for water and erased
that book. (The Prohibition of Recording the Hadith,
Causes and Effects, Sayyid Ali Al-Shahristani)

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