Page 113 - Bigotry: The Dark Danger

Adnan Oktar
(Harun Yahya)

Another problem, apart from the fact that a variety of fabri-
cated hadiths have found their way among the many fine hadiths
passed down from our Prophet (pbuh) that do reflect the spirit of the
Qur'an, is the way the hadiths were handed down. Many people
imagine that the hadiths have come down directly from the mouth of
our Prophet (pbuh), but that is not so: Not even hadith scholars claim

that these are directly transmitted sayings. Many hadith scholars,
and especially Bukhari, have considered that it is enough for the
meaning of the hadith to have been transmitted and that there is no
need to have memorized them word for word. That, of course, has

made it possible for much additional commentary to have entered
these sayings, for misunderstood subjects to be handed down as
true, and for people with a less than total understanding of the sub-
ject to have become involved in transmission.
While it has been regarded as sufficient to transmit the sense of
the hadith, failure to hear the beginning and end of the hadith has

Osman Hamdi Bey's oil painting
"Girl Reciting Qur'an," 1880

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