Page 1 - About the Hadith

About the God performed. Not even the About Sunnah
timings and units of
Hadith loves those
believers who prayers (rak‘ahs) are The contemporaries of the Prophet are known
labour to earn a living clearly mentioned.
by lawful means. We n e e d t h e as the Companions, or sahabah. Because the
traditions set forth
Hadith, meaning a “statement” or “report”, is used Companions believed in the message of the Prophet,
as an Islamic term for the records kept of the sayings
and doings of the Prophet Muhammad. Sunnah The Prophet in the Hadith to all his actions served as a precedent for them and
means the actions the Prophet himself performed,
or actions he asked his followers to perform. The Muhammad have full information every word falling from his lips
Hadith is a record of the Sunnah.
on this. became a commandment

Hadith, meaning a Even after knowing the to them; and they were Live in this
details, it might still not have been possible anxious to follow world as though
God “statement” or “report”, to follow the divine injunctions contained in each one as faithfully you are a stranger or a
the Quran. For not everything can be properly as they could.
understood by words alone. Therefore, the Prophet During the lifetime traveller.
demonstrated to the faithful how prayer was to be
has more is used as an Islamic performed. He said to the believers: “Look at me, of the Prophet The Prophet
compassion for His term for the records see how I worship, and follow me.” Muhammad, many of Muhammad
servants than a woman kept of the sayings and his Companions learnt
does for her child. doings of the Prophet
by heart whatever he said,

The Prophet Muhammad. Sunnah and keenly observed whatever
Muhammad means the actions
the Prophet himself The Quran repeatedly reminds us of the importance he did, all of which they shared with each other.
of Hadith, enjoining us to strictly follow the
Prophet: They naturally thirsted after the knowledge of what

performed, or actions he he said or did, so that many, like Abu Hurayrah,

asked his followers to perform. The “...Obey God and obey the messenger...” Anas ibn Malik and Abdullah ibn Mas‘ud, kept
(Al-Nisa, 4:59).
Hadith is a record of the Sunnah. constant company with him in order to observe and

hear his every word and deed.Ai‘sha, the Prophet’s

Hadith provides the second fundamental source It is as if the Quran is the text and the Hadith the wife, was the ?rst among women to tell of the
of Islam, giving us a full account of the life of the
Prophet, and serving as a commentary on the commentary, the Quran Prophet’s sayings and doings. She reported more
Quran.
being the theory The than two thousand hadith, while Abu Hurayrah

and the Hadith human heart, related more than ?ve thousand hadith.

The Quran principally deals with basics. It is the the practice. like iron, is liable to Later, the sayings were

Hadith which gives the details The Quran and rust. The remembrance compiled by various Narrate

and necessary explanations He H a d i t h a r e of death and recitation of collectors of hadith. the virtues of
In this regard, the dead and refrain
of Quranic injunctions. who lacks complementary the Quran protects the heart Bukhari and Muslim from revealing their

For instance, the Quran kindness of heart to one another from getting tarnished. sins.

says: “Establish the lacks all good. and are thus The Prophet are the ?rst to have
inseparable. Both Muhammad
service of worship.” But The Prophet are equally essential applied the most The Prophet
it does not specify how Muhammad rigorous measures to Muhammad
the worship has to be for the establishment

of religion. ascertain the reliability