Page 111 - Bigotry: The Dark Danger

Adnan Oktar
(Harun Yahya)

Hadith scholars were aware of this. Muslim said that he did not
include every hadith he regarded as being completely trustworthy in
his book (Muslim, Vol. 1). Bukhari, who said that hadiths were the
source of the faith, knew 600,000 hadiths but only included 6,000-
7,000, or 1% of the total. He concluded that the remaining 99% were
not trustworthy and did not include them in his book. This means

that the hadiths for the entire Islamic world were determined solely
according to the opinions of a few people, and this is indeed a terri-
ble state of affairs for those who regard the hadiths as "the source of
the faith" because they can never acquire any information about

other hadiths which may be regarded as trustworthy by others, but
that Muslim did not feel necessary to include in his book. Let us
remember at this point that while all this analysis was going on, the
Holy Qur'an, the utterly trustworthy, protected and unchanging
beauty of Islam, was set to one side.

The Egyptian commentator Ahmad Amin makes the following
assessment, revealing the scale of fabrication of hadiths:

Were we to make an expository display of the hadiths, we
would be confronted with a pyramid, the summit illustrating
the period of God's messenger. As we go down we observe the
gradual expansion toward the base. Yet, the ideal should have
been the reverse; for, the companions of the Prophet best knew
what the Prophet uttered. As they were to pass away, the num-
ber of those who knew the words uttered by the Prophet would
decrease and the pyramid would have changed its position and
turned upside down. Yet, we observe that the number of
hadiths is even greater under the Omayyads than during the
lifetime of the Prophet. (Ahmad Amin, Duha al-Islam)

That being the case, the existence and trustworthiness of hun-
dreds of thousands of hadiths, all different to one another and some-

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