Refuting the Rejectors of Hadith : A Field to Specialize

Refuting the Rejectors of Hadith : A Field to Specialize

by Nisaar Y. Nadiadwala on Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 4:57pm

 

Many people have a negative attitude towards the hadith and they think or are made to think that due to differences in hadith there are various sects among Muslims. So they think that Qur'an is enough for the guidance and hadith are not required.

   A visitor,once, bought a young man to me  and introduced him as "Munkare e Hadith". The man intervened and said  "Sorry I am Ahl e Qur'an " I asked him "Do you pray five times?" he replied," No, only three times, as the Qur'an does not speak about five times" I proceeded further , "Tell me how do you pray ?" He replied, " I pray the way I want to pray " Allah says PRAY  so I pray " "Fine", I said," Do you give zakat after salah ? " I asked. He was amused, " No. Zakat at times means charity and at times means to purify zakiyya so I get my self purified." I told him, " Look my friend, the Qur'anic verse says " aqimoossalaat wa aatuzzakat... establish your salah and give your zakah.. now if you say zakat means charity then immediately after salah you must give your zakat  other wise you have not implemented the whole verse but only a half of it.. and if you say zakah means purifying then you pray salah first and then perform wudhoo !!!" The discussion ended as he promised to come back after more research and he has never come back.

 The rejectors of the Hadith can be put iinto various categories. There is one more group among these people who claim that they reject only those hadith which contradicts the common sense. Another group claim that they reject many hadith from Sahiah Al Bukhari.  A group of such people visited us once and we had a healthy discussion ending up with a promise of more discussion , never to come back.  The rejctors of hadith are playing into the hands of those vested interest who want to wipe out Islam. It happened with the previous Ummah and they lost the touch with the book of Allah.

What is hadith? Hadith is a collection of the narrations of the Prophet (pbuh) in which his commands, his actions and his approvals are compiled. Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) happens to be the only person in the history of mankind whose actions, commands, approvals.. entire lifestyle is preserved in the books. How he walked and how he talked and how broad his lips went when he laughed , all is preserved. Preservation of Hadith is a preservation of the  Implementation of Qur'anic injunctions. 

  Some enemies of Islam think that if you want to dilute Islam then remove the sunnah from the culture of the Muslims and automatically they will dissappear and disintegrate into fractions uncountable. This is true, because it is the sunnah of the Prophet that binds the Muslims together as a community and gives a universal picture of united Muslims, irresepctive of region , language or country they stay in. Take only two examples , one of the beard and other of the  hijab. these two noble traditions of Islam are  identifications of a Muslim. The world know Muslims easily if they sport a beard or a woman, if she wears a hijab. In the same way the rest of the traditions too.. You can include the jumuah salah or the Iftar and many things of the sunnah of the Prophet (pbuh ) which comes from the Hadith. Infact the entire Islam is seen because of the Sunnah in the life of the Muslims, because the life of the Prophet (pbuh) was nothing but actions according ot the Qur'an. Just substract Sunnah from the life of the Muslims, you cannot even identify a Muslim. 

  Since more fitnah of Munkar e Hadith are coming up these days I feel that some youth who are enthusiastic to do da'wah can take up defending the Hadith as super specialized subject and can do wonders like how Shaikh Ahmed Deedat has done wonders in 'Islam and Christianity' and Dr Zakir Naik has done in the field of comparitive religion. In every age when ever some or other person came up with allegations against Islam, Allah too appointed his own warriors in the field of Academics to defend his deen .. Inshallah let us see who is the next Da'ee of the century.. most probably it can be some one who raises up the issue of defending the Sahih Hadith and refuting all the allegations of Munkar e Hadith...

Author : Nisaar Nadiadwala speaks and writes on Islamic Issues. He can be reached at nisaar_yusuf@yahoo.com

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