Hadiths Contradict the Qur'an

Hadith books may contain more details, but are those details helpful and consistent with the Qur'an? Are the hadiths to blame for the cause of religious fanaticism?

There once was a Golden Age when hadiths were treated less seriously and with a hint of skepticism. The hadiths simply were not yet part of a brand that is packaged and sold to the world like it is now. Instead, back then, the Qur'an reigned supreme, which unsurprisingly led to the rise of the world's great philosophers and geniuses.

While hadiths did circulate, they were not infused into the religion until some time after the major collections were formally completed (200 years after Muhammad). It is at that moment the hadiths had started to be given a perceived authority with the invention of slogans such as "Sahih" (meaning authentic), causing the majority to not only eventually accept such narrations as factual, but to also instill them into daily rituals and teachings within the religion.

These works artificially became an undeniable part of the faith as devotees started to memorize hadiths alongside the Qur'an. Prior, there would be the occasional mumbling of a supposed narration heard from so-and-so, yet, they were largely taken with a grain of salt. Not anymore, the healthy skepticism disappeared and blind obedience took its place.

This marks the start of a "new" religion, one undeniably more uniform and concrete with the status of the works of Bukhari and others being blasphemously placed alongside the Qur'an. All this despite the Qur'an claiming the faith had already been perfected during the time of Muhammad (read 5:3), hence sufficing the Qur'an as the minimum necessity for salvation, unlike what is often parroted today (Qur'an and "Sunnah").

As time went on (slowly and not abruptly), the ancient sciences of Hermeticism, Alchemy, Astrology, etc. were largely extinguished and instead replaced with infantile ideologies that have origins in the hadith. A great cataclysm had arrived when the hadiths started to horribly overshadow the Qur'an and knock it out of orbit, leading to the downfall of the "Golden Age" and the rise of religious fanaticism.

PROPHET MUHAMMAD'S ONLY COMPLAINT

In the Qur'an, we read of only one complaint of the Prophet on the Day of Judgement. His complaint is a profound statement that exposes the reality of today's Muslims.

25:30 in the Qur'an reads in whole: "And the Messenger will say: "O my Lord, my people have abandoned this Qur'an."

Notice there is no mention of hadiths at all, for something to be so integral and unequivocally part of the faith, it is quite interesting how it's completely alien to the Qur'an. The self-appointed scholars habitually reiterate that the religion is fundamentally based on the "Qur'an and Sunnah", yet the Qur'an itself does not confirm this in the slightest. Here, we have two different belief structures regarding religion.

In the Qur'an, the Prophet Muhammad is portrayed as a Prophet of Love, yet this same portrayal does not often fit the narrations regarding him within the endless hadiths. Is a Prophet truly humble if he tells others that they must cultishly repeat "Peace Be Upon Him" after each and every time his name happens to be mentioned? Does this even sound like the same Prophet in the Qur'an? It's quite apparent that we have two different characters here, and it all depends on the source.

BUT, BROTHER, HOW DO YOU PRAY???

A common argument against a much-needed demolition of the toxic hadith framework currently within Islam, often plays along the lines of: "How do you pray without the hadith?" Firstly, the hadiths do not even accurately teach you how to pray to begin with. For example, you may find dozens of hadiths in Sahih Muslim narrating that the Prophet Muhammad prayed in completely different styles and manners. There are also many conflicting hadiths regarding ablution which is the source of different rituals among sects. Hadiths, more or less of them compounding God's word with contradictory details, cannot guide to the truth. The overwhelming majority cannot be traced back to Muhammad in any legitimate and strict analysis.

It becomes incredibly laughable to believe that Almighty God, the Creator of the world's profound majesty with all it's different diverse creations, sceneries, and landscapes, could possibly enact only one exact form of prayer to be accepted by Him! The diversity of prayers and cultures should be a means for acceptance of one another, not a means of dogmatism or conflict. The form of sincere prayer that exists in one's soul or in one's heart, is infinitely more splendid and legitimate than daily physical prostrations done mechanically and robotically. Likewise, the Qur'an says that the best form of modesty is modesty of the heart, and not necessarily modesty of clothing (read 7:26).

The hadiths have become the source of extremism for ignorant believers and community leaders who easily manipulate them, considering there is an endless volume of hundreds of thousands that can be used to justify anything, good or bad. The hadiths have been the source of the most tragic sectarian conflict the world has ever seen (Sunnis, Shias, Ibadis, Ismailis, etc. all have their own hadiths which are blindly adhered to).

To further provide examples, the hadith books narrate a silly story regarding the times of the so-called Islamic prayers and its ordinance. The story of Mirage is one of the longest hadiths in the works of Bukhari. Reportedly, after getting frequent advice from Moses by going up and down between the sixth and seventh heaven, Muhammad negotiated with God to reduce the number of prayers from 50 times a day (one prayer for every 28 minutes) to 5 times a day. This hadith portrays Muhammad as a compassionate union leader saving his people from God's unmerciful and impossible demand.

It's nigh time that the silent minority that existed throughout time woke up and took back their religion from the fanatics that have taken over since the downfall of the Golden Age. Religious fanaticism seeks to destroy all races and cultures, replacing them with a homogenous, bland culture void of any divine beauty and dignity. We've seen it time and time again, the list is disheartening: Kurds, Afghans, Iranians, Syrians, Indians, etc. Wherever a new mosque is built in the name of Brand Islam, we see the ensuing homogenization in the form of cult-like dogmas and mentalities.

The Quranic concept of modesty encompasses and satisfies within the traditional, native cultures that God created. All modest and dignified cultures are a gift from God. The disease of fanaticism is fueled by the framework of hadiths that have usurped old Quranic wisdom. The hadiths have took a permanent home in the faith beyond even what Bukhari himself might have originally intended.

Books that narrate stories from hordes of people invariably contain lies and falsehoods. Compare the Qur'an, that comes from one divine source, to the books of hadith that come from a collective crowd. We read in the Qur'an in several verses that the masses or multitudes of people follow mere assumption (read 6:116, 10:36). Collective literature like the hadith often contain narrations from people that lack wisdom or have not been initiated into the teachings, leading to fanatical misinterpretations of scripture. Similar processes of degeneration have been seen in Christianity or Judaism.

DON'T CAST PEARLS BEFORE SWINE

To put it bluntly, the likelihood of degeneration or corruption increases by the amount of people that transmit that information, and this is due to several obvious reasons.

To those that can see it, there exists a stark difference between books that come from one divine source or author (example given: Qur'an or Torah), versus books that compile stories from the wide public (example given: Hadiths or Talmud). The work of genius comes from a select few, and definitely not the hordes of masses that lack stringent quality or criteria needed for proper dissemination. Bukhari and other hadith collectors insipidly relied on chains of narrations that included large amounts of known (or unknown) people.

While there does exist good and decency within some aspects of hadith, overall, the current volumes of hadiths have caused more harm than good. By it's very nature, the hadiths insidiously undervalue the Qur'an. For example, there's a hadith in Bukhari that says there used to be a verse condoning "stoning" in the Qur'an, but apparently that verse doesn't exist because it was abrogated by a goat that ate it when it was written and left under the Prophet's bed! This is the level of mockery we see written in the hadiths. This hadith was stamped "Sahih" and so we should stop any intelligent reasoning and just blindly accept it for what it says: a part of the Qur'an was lost because God couldn't prevent a goat from eating the verse. This outrageous hadith was believed to be authentic by Bukhari (again, transmitted through a chain of numerous unreliable people). Should a person that authors this kind of heresy be trusted? Both Sunnis and Shias have hadiths that heretically say that the Qur'an was in someway altered. It's of no surprise that people with nefarious agendas go to great lengths to legitimize rituals and prohibitions never mentioned in the Qur'an. This hadith probably came in response to some skeptics that questioned the barbaric practice of stoning in context to the lack of its mentioning in the Qur'an. Stoning is nowhere condoned in any of the Qur'an's 114 chapters, in fact, the only time it's even mentioned, is when it was describing an example of Pharoah's atrocities; the evil tyrant king that enslaved the people of Moses.

In summary, the revival of the Golden Age is no easy task, though the path to cultural greatness and strength can certainly only arrive when the current framework of the religion is dismantled in a way that re-ensures the supremacy of the Qur'an as the true and pure source of guidance and wisdom. This is how we can purify our faith.

Below are just a few examples of the many fanatical and obviously incorrect interpretations found within the hadith texts, including contradictions and inconsistencies.

CONTRADICTIONS, INCONSISTENCIES, AND FANATICISM

• The Prophet never urinated in a standing position. (Masnad Hanbal, 6/136, 192, 213)

• The Prophet urinated in a standing position. (Bukhari, 4/60, 62)

• A group from Ureyneh and Uqayleh tribes came to the Prophet, and he advised them to drink urine of camels. Later on, when they killed the Prophet’s shepherd, the Prophet seized them, gouged out their eyes, cut their hands and legs, and left them thirsty in the desert. (Bukhari, 56/152, Masnad Hanbal, 3/107, 163)

• I am the most honorable messenger; on the Day of Judgement only I will think of my people. (Bukhari, 97/36)

• Do not make any distinction among the messengers; I am not even better than Jonah. (Bukhari, 65/4, 5; Hanbal, 1/205, 242, 440)

• Bad luck is in the woman, the horse, and the home. (Bukhari, 76/53)

• If a donkey, a black dog or a woman passes in front of a praying person, his prayer is nullified. (Bukhari 8/102; Hanbal, 4/86)

• The Prophet gave permission to kill children and women in war. (Bukhari, Jihad 146, Abu Dawood 113)

• You shall kill all black dogs, because they are devils (Hanbal, 4/85; 5/54)

• To prove His identity, God opened his legs and showed the Prophet His thigh. (Bukhari, 97/24); 10/129)

• The parchment on which the verse about stoning to death for adultery was written, was eaten and abrogated by a goat. (Ibn Maajah, 36/1944; Hanbal, 3/61; 5/131, 132, 183; 6/269)

• When the Prophet died, his armour had been pawned to a Jew for several pounds of barley. (Bukhari, 34/14, 33, 88; Hanbal 1/300; 6/42, 160, 230)

• The punishment for cutting the fingers of a woman is to pay her: 10 camels for one finger; 20 camels for two fingers; 30 camels for three fingers, and 20 (twenty) camels for four fingers. (Hanbal, 2/182; Muwatta, 43/11)

• The Prophet had been bewitched by a Jew, and for several days he did not know what he was doing. (Bukhari, 59/11; 76/47; Hanbal 6/57; 4/367)

• Do not eat or drink with your left hand, because Satan eats and drinks with the left hand. (Hanbal, 2/8, 33)

• The Prophet said: Do not write down anything from me except the Qur’an. Whoever has written down anything, must destroy it. (Muslim, Zuhd 72; Hanbal 3/12, 21, 39)

• The Prophet ordered Amr Ibn Aas to write everything that he (the Prophet) speaks. (Hanbal, 2/162)

• Umar said: Qur’an is enough for us. Do not write down anything from the Prophet. (Bukhari, Jihad 176; Jizya 6; Maghazi 83; Muslim, Wasiyya 20, 21, 22)