The Prophet objected to another Book (of Hadith) with the Book of Allah, Commands to Erase Hadiths:
The Prophet (pbuh) commanded the Companions to "erase whatever was written" ( Masnad Ahmad 10670) and here the reason given by the Prophet was , Another book with the book of Allah? (so as not to follow the path of the people of the earlier communities )
#1 - Prohibition of Hadith Writing
A.
Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that once we were sitting and writing the words coming out of the blessed mouth of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him).He asked what are you writing? We replied that what we hear from you.
The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: Another book in the presence of book of Allah? Keep the Book of Allah pure.Then we collected what ever we had written and burnt it.
Then we asked the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) if he could narrate his Hadeeths or not? . The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: Yes. You can narrate my hadiths, there is no harm in that, but whoever intentionally attributes a lie to me, he should make his abode in Hell, then we asked, "O Messenger of Allah, can we narrate the events of the Children of Israel?" Then we asked, "O Messenger of Allah, can we mention the events of the Children of Israel?" He said yes! You can narrate them too, there's no harm with that either, because whatever you say about them will have even more surprises.(Musnad Ahmad, Book: Narrations of Hazrat Abu Saeed Al-Khudri, Chapter: Narrations of Hazrat Abu Saeed Al-Khudri, Hadith No: 10670)
[Note: Abu Hurayrah uses "We" were writing , means he was also part of team writing Hadiths. He never wrote Hadith till his death. Implies that the Command of Prophet (pbuh) was permanent, temporary permissions to individuals were granted for weak memory or any other reason. If ban was lifted, why would someone ask for permission to write?]
B.
In the famous book, "Taq-yeed Al-Ilm", Abu Hurayra said, the messenger of God was informed that some people are writing his hadiths. He took to the pulpit of the mosque and said, "What are these books that I heard you wrote? I am just a human being. Anyone who has any of these writings should bring it here. Abu Hurayra said we collected all these and burned them in fire." [Hadith of Umar's ban on hadith]
C.
Abu Hurayra narrates: God’s Messenger once came near us while some friends were writing down what they had heard from him. He asked what they were writing. ‘We are writing what we heard from you’, they answered. The Messenger warned: ‘Do you know that the communities preceding you went astray because they wrote down from others beside the Book of God.’[Khatib al-Baghdadi, Taqyid al-‘Ilm, 34.]
[Note: Same reason was given by Umer and Ali (R.A) while banning Hadith writing.]
#2 Prohibition of Hadith Writing
Abu Said Khudri reported that Allahs Messenger ﷺ said: Do not take down anything from me, and he who took down anything from me except the Quran, he should efface that and narrate from me, for there is no harm in it and he who attributed any falsehood to me -and Hammam said: I think he also said: "deliberately"- he should in fact find his abode in the Hell-Fire. [Saheeh Muslim 7510]
#3 Prohibition of Hadith Writing
Narrated Al-Muttalib bin Abdullah bin Hantab (RA) : Al-Muttalib ibn Abdullah ibn Hantab said: Zayd ibn Thabit entered upon Muawiyah and asked him about a tradition. He ordered a man to write it. Zayd said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ ordered us not to write any of his traditions. So he erased it. [Abu Dawood 3647]
#4Prohibition of Hadith Writing
Hazrat Ali said, Prophet said:“Whoever seeks guidance in other than Qur'an, Allah will lead him astray. That (Qur'an) is a strong rope of Allah and it is a firm and strong(Zikr) (remembrance) and it is a straight path.” (Tirmidhi 2906)
#5 Missing Hadith as source of Justice:
When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) intended to send Mu'adh ibn Jabal to the Yemen, he asked: How will you judge when the occasion of deciding a case arises?
He replied: I shall judge in accordance with Allah's Book. He asked: (What will you do) if you do not find any guidance in Allah's Book? He replied: (I shall act) in accordance with the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ).He asked: (What will you do) if you do not find any guidance in the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and in Allah's Book? He replied: I shall do my best to form an opinion and I shall spare no effort. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) then patted him on the breast and said: Praise be to Allah Who has helped the messenger of the Messenger of Allah to find something which pleases the Messenger of Allah [ Reference : Sunan Abi Dawud 3592, Book 25, Hadith 22, English translation : Book 24, Hadith 3585 ]
Hazrat Ali (RA) Qur'an and Hadiths
Hazrat Abdullah Ibn Yasar says that one day Hazrat Ali (RA) gathered all the Companions and ordered that after returning from here, the first thing everyone should do is to erase whoever has any writing. Because the first nations have perished because of following the hadiths of their scholars and abandoning the Book of Allah. (Short Comprehensive Statement of Knowledge, p. 33)
مختصر جامع بیان العلم ص 33)
Hazrat Ali (RA) said in the sermon: “Whoever has a scripture (other than the Qur'an), I swear that if he returns home, he will be wiped out, because the previous nations perished when they read the Book of their Lord. Leaving and stuck in the words of their scholars ”[Ibn Hjr Asqlani , History of Hadith Nakhbatul Fikr]
History records that the writings of the Rabbinic literature -the Talmud, did overshadow the Torah, which was revealed to the earlier Prophet Moses. The writings of Paul - the Epistles, did overshadow the Injeel that was revealed to Prophet Isa. In other words, the Prophet did not want his Ummah to repeat the same mistake of Creating a Secondary Document" that would at a later date overshadow what was revealed to him
CLAIM: Prohibition was Temporary not to Mix Hadith with Quran:
Perhaps the prohibition of that was for when it was feared that it would get mixed in with the Qur'an, and then afterwards it was secured from that. And Allah knows best.
Comments :
The use of the word "Perhaps", and the phrase “Allah knows best" indicate that the above statement is based upon an assumption or a surmise.
The statement has No supporting evidence that would qualify the passage as a definite statement of Truth and not a speculative conjecture, guesswork.
Most of them follow naught but conjecture. Assuredly conjecture can by no means take the place of truth. Lo! Allah is Aware of what they do. (Quran:10:36 )
CLAIM: Hadith writing was permitted :
It has been established in the two Saheehs that the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said,
' Write for Abee Shaah.' And indeed we clarified this topic in the introductions of our first books. And for Allah is the praise.
Comments
There are reports that when an individual had a weak memory, the Messenger of Allah gave such individual instructions (Tirmdhi 2666) . There are always exceptions to well-defined rules. Even within the Revealed Verses of the Qur’an, there are exceptions for certain groups of people for certain reasons. Such exceptions are not the norm and cannot be applied to everyone or to normal circumstances. This particular isolated incident concerned the writing of a Khutbah (the nature of which is different from that of the prophetic sayings or deeds). One cannot with all sincerity elevate an isolated instruction to a valid command from the Messenger, to repeal the earlier command; “Whoever writes from me something other than the Qur'an, then let him erase it.”
#1 Claim Hadith Writing Permitted
Narrated Abu Hurairah (RA) : When Makkah was conquered, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ got up and said: If a relative of anyone is killed, he will have a choice between two: he (the slayer) will either pay the blood-wit or he will be killed. A man of the Yemen called Abu Shah stood up and said: Write for me, Messenger of Allah. The narrator al-Abbas (b. al-Walid) said: Write to me, (you people). The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: Write (you people), for Abu Shah. These are the wordings of the tradition of Ahmad. Abu Dawud said: Write (you people), for me, that is, the address of the Prophet ﷺ . [Abu Dawood Hadith 4505 ]
(سنن ابوداؤد, کتاب: دیت کا بیان , باب: قتل عمد میں وارث مقتول دیت لے سکتا ہے, حدیث نمبر: 4505)
#2 Claim Hadith Writing Permitted
Ali had No Book besides Quran:
I asked `Ali "Do you have anything Divine literature besides what is in the Qur'an?" Or, as Uyaina once said, "Apart from what the people have?" `Ali said, "By Him Who made the grain split (germinate) and created the soul, we have nothing except what is in the Qur'an and the ability (gift) of understanding Allah's Book which He may endow a man, with and what is written in this sheet of paper." I asked, "What is on this paper?" He replied, "The legal regulations of Diya (Blood-money) and the (ransom for) releasing of the captives, and the judgment that no Muslim should be killed in Qisas (equality in punishment) for killing a Kafir (disbeliever). [Sahih al-Bukhari 6915, Book 87, Hadith 53, USC-MSA web (English) reference : Vol. 9, Book 83, Hadith 50 ]
There are many more arguments in favour of writing Hadiths by individuals, even by Shias, but no one discuss as to why all 4 Caliphs including Ali (R.A) did not make arrangements to write Hadith Books, while Quran had been collected, checked, rechecked and distributed in standard book form?
No one discusses the main reason given by Prophet (pbuh), Umer and Ali (R.A) not to have another book beside book of Allah.
Comments
- Writing letters to neighboring rulers, official correspondence, instructions , Zakat calculations, pacts , charter of Madina, Hudabia etc cannot be cited to support Hadith writing/ permission, which was prohibited due to specific reason, Not to have any other Book besides Quran , the reason further explained by Caliph Umer (R.A) that the previous communities went astray due to same reason, they preferred other books over Book of God, no other book like Mishna.
- Since writing was permitted for people with weak memory, legal regulations written on piece of paper is to avoid any error on memory on such important matter involving calculations etc. More over we find Ali (R.A) asking people to erase what ever they have except Quran, hence argument does not support Hadith writing or book writing.
- If someone maintained and preserved private notes deliberately, this violation and disobedience of Command of Prophet (pbuh) & Rightly Guided Caliphs is a great sin, it cannot become justification to write Hadith Books.
- The individual private notes for memorization do not justify writing of Hadith Books in the presence of explicit command of Prophet (pbuh) and Sunnah of Rightly Guided Caliphs.
- The Hadith books are mysteriously silent on the Hadith ban by Umer (R.A) endorsed and maintained by Rightly Guided Caliphs? The information is found in history and other books.
Proof : Hadith Writing was not Permitted
The Grandson of Abu Bakr
The next story that Ibn Saad (168-230 Hijrah) recounts about the Commander of the Faithful and his attitude toward the Hadith is found in volume five of the Tabaqat. It is related to the authority of al-Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr al-Siddiq (d. 106 AH)—the grandson of Abu Bakr, another of Mumammad’s (pbuh) closest companions and the first of the rightly guided Caliphs who led the Muslim community after his death. When al-Qasim was asked by his student Abd Allah ibn al-Ala’ (d. 164 AH) to dictate Hadith, he refused, saying;
“the Hadith multiplied during the time of Umar; then he called on the people to bring them to him, and when they brought them to him, he ordered them to be burned.” Afterward, he said, ‘a Mishna like the Mishna of the People of the Book,’ (mathna’a ka mathna’at ahl al-Kitab).”
“From that day on,” Abd Allah ibn al-Ala’ continues, “Al-Qasim forbade me to write Hadith.”
As in the first story, what disturbs Umar is the writing of a book that will compete with the Book of God.
Listening to Hadith / Oral Transmission and mushroom growth of Fake/ weak/ unreliable Hadiths:
Abū Ayyūb Sulaymān bin Ubayd Allah al-Ghaylānī narrated to us, Abū Āmir, meaning al-Aqadī, narrated to us, Rabāh narrated to us, on authority of Qays bin Sa’d, on authority of Mujāhid, he said Bushayr ul-Adawī came to Ibn Abbās then he set about narrating to him, saying:
‘The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah upon him, said…’, ‘the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah upon him, said…’. Then it seemed that Ibn Abbās was not listening to his Ḥadīth and not reflecting on them, so [Bushayr] said: ‘Oh Ibn Abbās, why is it that I see you not listening to my Ḥadīth? I narrate to you on authority of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah upon him, however you are not listening’. Ibn Abbās said: ‘Indeed once upon a time we would listen to a man saying, ‘the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah upon him, said…’ rushing towards him with our eyes and harkening towards him with our ears; then when the people took the difficult and the docile we no longer took from people except those whom we knew’. [Saheeh Muslim Hadith# 20]
(صحیح مسلم، کتاب: مقدمہ مسلم، باب: ضعیف لوگوں سے روایت کرنے کی ممانعت اور روایت کے تحمل میں احتیاط کے بیان میں، حدیث نمبر: 20)
Salamah bin Shabīb narrated to me, al-Humaydī narrated to us, Sufyān narrated to us, he said I heard Abū Mūsā [Isrā’īl bin Mūsā al-Basrī] saying: ‘Amr bin Ubayd narrated to us before what happened’ [i.e. before he became Mu’tazilī].
Even if there is any doubt or ambiguity , the Sunnah of Rightly Guided Caliphs , not to allow Hadith writing / books is enough to clarify that there is NO book except Quran in Islam. It is part of Faith (Ayman) to believe in Books of Allah, Quran being the Last Book, any deviation in belief is corruption and serious matter. Following aspects must be be kept in view:
Hadith as a source of scriptural authority
This is particularly important aspect of the controversies over the Hadith as a source of scriptural authority because that authority rests on the belief in Prophetic authority and the duality of revelation.
The first story Ibn Sad narrates about Umar’s attitude toward the recording of the Hadith occurs in the section where he recounts his appointment as Caliph (Dhikr istikhlaf Umar). He cites a story from Sufyan ibn Uyayna (d. 198 AH), on the authority of al-Zuhri that
“Umar wanted (arada) to write the Traditions (al-sunan), so he spent a month praying for guidance; and afterward, he became determined to write them. But then he said: ‘I recalled a people who wrote a book, then they dedicated themselves to it (aqbalu alaihi) to it and neglected the Book of God (wa-taraku Kitab Allah).
Please read .... Caliphs Umer bin Khattab's Role as Guardian of Quran & Hadith ban , which remained in force till 2/3 rd century Hijrah, when famous Hadith books were written.
The Legitimacy of so called Consensus on Hadith Books?
Claim: Indeed it was related that scholars of later times agreed upon the permisibility of writing the hadiths, and this matter is exhaustive, widespread, and well known, without disapproval.
Comments
- The Statement speaks of “agreement(s)” by and between the scholars. Such agreement(s) may be “exhaustive, widespread, and well known and without disapproval”, yet if they are applied to annul, rescind or invalidate a maroof Command of the Prophet, they have to be based upon a similar maroof or explicit Command by the Prophet (pbuh)
- The Claim/ Statement does not speak of receiving such a directive.
- Indeed, if there was a valid maroof or explicit narration for the permissiblity of writing the hadiths/ books then the need for such agreement was un-called for, redundant and superfluous .
- The Statement speaks of the scholars of later times but does not specify the time period(s) of such accord(s).
- It does not mention the names of the scholars that had reached an agreement.
- This agreement seems to be a kind of verbal thing because there is no mention of any written document or the text having been recorded.
- In absence of these essential data the quoted statement appears to be lacking the necessary support to rescind the earlier Command of the Prophet; 'Whoever writes from me something other than the Qur'an, then let him erase it.'
- Source: Hadith - Myths & Realities - A Critical Study: https://bit.ly/3jK25xG
This violation has serious consequences , not discussed, please read here <Big Bid'ah>
The most important but ignored deed of Hazrat Umar (RA) ......[........]
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Al-Khateeb says: "We consider Ibn Saad as reliable. His reporting indicates that he takes meticulous care in most of what he reports." Ibn Khillikan describes him as "truthful and reliable." Imam Ibn Hajar gives him a similar approval and says: "He is one of the top reliable and meticulous scholars." Indeed critical scholars place him in their ranking higher than his teacher, Al-Waqidi. The book that kept Ibn Saad’s name well-known in scholarly circles up to our present time, and is likely to keep it that way for ever, is known for short as Al-Tabaqat, while its full name is Kitab Al-Tabaqat Al-Kabeer. It is an encyclopedic work which the author intended to take up to 15 volumes, serving the Sunnah and Hadith scholarship. [Arab News]
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