Comments on: Know Your Hadith: Part III

By: Rhonda

Rhonda — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:40:33 +0000

@strivinggrattitude,

I’d recommend that you read this article written by Sr. Shazia Ahmad about ahadith that seem unfair to women: http://www.suhaibwebb.com/ummah/women/questioning-the-hadith/

By: strivinggratitude

strivinggratitude — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 23:35:14 +0000

i agree with umm zaheen. I think that people would rather dissent from haidths altogether then believe that the one who Allah swt sent down as a mercy to humankind would say such a thing. But I don’t take issue with the prophet, I take issue with the scholars. And where are our female scholars? How come muslims are always assuming that the scholars that authenticate these hadiths were truly pious and had the best of intentions. Not to be a conspiracy theorist, but if someone truly hated islam, wouldn’t the most effective way of destroying it be to pretend to be pious and accredit something horrible to the prophet which he did not say nor do. The language of such hadiths as umm zaheen mentioned do not only contradict the prophet’s seerah, but also the Quran’s attitude towards women. Honestly I reject all hadith that belittle women to such a degree, and if I am wrong then Allah forgive me, but my gut and my brain tell me I’m not wrong.

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By: umm zaheen

umm zaheen — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:23:40 +0000

Asalaam alaikum,

This article is an important one and I am glad you have brought the topic of hadiths up. I hope you will continue the series by also discussing the issue of how “false” hadiths has crept into the books and how we can be aware of them. I do not think Muslims do not believe in the sunnah of the Prophet or reject all hadiths. But certain hadiths that have been relayed that seem so out of sync with the Prophet’s sunnah or the Quran but are still called “sahih” hadith, have put much doubt in people’s mind about the authenticity of all hadith. For example, there is a hadith still in circulation that says that a husband’s status is so much higher than a wife’s that if he requests his wife to lick the puss off his dirty wounded feet, she should do it. Now I have the hardest time even swallowing the idea that our beloved Prophet would debase a woman so low. His sunnah was to treat his wives and his female companions with the highest degree of respect. Yet the hadith still circulates that if Allah allowed a human to prostrate to another human, the wife should prostrate to her husband! Yet in the Quran, Allah counts as one of the best women on earth Asya, the wife of the Pharoah, who completely disobeyed her husband and left his religion for the religion of Allah, and has promised her the best place in heaven.

So sister, it is not the hadith that match the Quran that distrub people not to trust all hadith, it is these kinds of so called hadiths that make one doubt the true authenticity of all hadiths. While the scholars of the past have tried their best to ensure the accuracy of hadith, that does not mean that our generation should stop using their methodology of confirming everything we hear and read about the Prophet, and make sure that it follows in accordance with the Quran and the general characteristic of the Prophet. It is a much bigger sin to promote a false saying of the Prophet, than to doubt a hadith that may be accurate.

Unless you discuss this issue of hadith sciences, it will be very hard to remove the doubts that linger about hadiths in general.

Jazakullah Khair.