Quran, Hadith, and Islam
By Dr. Rashad Khalifa
Following Hadith and Sunna is idolization of the prophet Muhammad against his will, since he is a human like us who must not be idolized.“that Muhammad is a man like other men; he should not be idolized”“Following "Hadith & Sunna" is idolization of the prophet Muhammad against his will.”"Say (O Muhammad), 'I am no more than a human being like you. It has been revealed to me that your God is ONE GOD.
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God commands that the Quran alone be the only source of religious teaching, and accepting any other source equals setting up other gods beside God.“Our Almighty Creator commands that QURAN, specifically QURAN, SHALL BE THE ONLY SOURCE of religious teachings.”“Again and again, we are reminded that the following of ANY OTHER SOURCE BESIDE QURAN EQUALS THE SETTING UP OF OTHER GODS BESIDE GOD.”“Accepting any other sources of guidance constitutes the setting up of other gods beside God; IDOLWORSHIP.”
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God gave us all the words we need in the Quran, so we should not seek the words of Muhammad or anyone else.“These verses clearly inform us that God does not suffer from shortage of words; that He gave us ALL THE WORDS we need in this Quran, and that we should not seek the words of Muhammad, or anyone else,”
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Hadith and Sunna are conjecture, and their conjectural and contradictory nature is unanimously recognized.“Hadith and Sunna are unanimously recognized as conjecture.”“The conjectural and contradictory nature of Hadith and Sunna are unanimously recognized.”
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Hadith and Sunna are the necessary test separating true Muslims, who accept no source but the Quran, from false Muslims who are attracted to them.“Quran teaches that "Hadith & Sunna" constitute the necessary test to distinguish the true Muslim from the false Muslim.”“As for the false Muslim, he or she will become attracted to "Hadith & Sunna", and thus [be] exposed as a hypocrite who utters belief, while the heart inside is denying (see 16:22).”
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Hadith and Sunna have nothing to do with the prophet Muhammad, and following them is flagrant disobedience of God and His final prophet.“the extremely popular "Hadith & Sunna" have nothing to do with the prophet Muhammad, and that adherence thereto represents flagrant disobedience of God and His final prophet (Quran 6:112 & 25:31).”“The knowledgeable and fortunate believers, therefore, realize that Hadith & Sunna are Satanic fabrications aimed at diverting people from the path of God.”
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Hadith fits the Quranic description of a book where one can find anything one wishes, unlike the one consistent source, the Quran.“the believers can be distinguished by the fact that they follow THE ONE CONSISTENT SOURCE (Quran), while the disbelievers follow "a book wherein they find anything they want."”
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Hadiths are narrations of people who never saw the Prophet; the first Hadith book was written by Bukhary, born more than 200 years after Muhammad's death.“It is well known that the first book of Hadith is that of Bukhary, who was born more than 200 years after the death of Muhammad.”“Thus, the Hadith is simply a narration by Bukhary's source, claiming that he or she heard something about the Prophet across eight generations of the dead.”
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Muhammad did not know the future, so the many Hadiths narrating future events are personal predictions unrelated to the Quran.“Yet, hundreds of "Hadiths" narrate future events that have nothing to do with Quran, and represent personal predictions.”“It should be noted that the expression "AlKhulafaa' AlRashideen" did not appear in Arabic literature until 200 years after the prophet; it is a modern expression.”
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Muhammad was forbidden from uttering any religious teachings besides the Quran, and his sole function was to deliver the whole Quran and nothing but the Quran.“These very clear verses teach us that Muhammad was forbidden from uttering any religious teachings beside Quran.”“the Prophet's sole function was to "DELIVER" Quran, the whole Quran, and NOTHING but Quran.”“HAD HE EVER UTTERED ANY OTHER RELIGIOUS UTTERANCES (attributed to us), we would have punished him severely, then we would have stopped the revelation to him (fired him).”"Your ONLY duty is delivering (Quran), while we will call them to account." (13:40)
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Obeying the messenger means obeying the words of God he uttered, the Quran, since the Quran came through his mouth; obeying a Hadith is obeying its narrator, not the Prophet.“Only a little thinking leads us to realize that Quran came to us through Muhammad's mouth, and DID NOT COME TO US FROM GOD DIRECTLY. Hence the commandment that we shall obey the messenger...for he utters the words of God.”“Thus, if the narrator of a given Hadith is for example a Abbas ibn Yasser, then obeying the Hadith narrated by Abbas ibn Yasser is in fact obeying Abbas ibn Yasser, and has nothing to do with obeying the Prophet.”“The true obedience of the Prophet Muhammad is only by obeying Quran, which was indeed uttered by Muhammad, and is supported by indisputable PHYSICAL EVIDENCE.”
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Seeking religious instructions from Muhammad or any source besides God supports Satan's claim that God needs a partner.“When we seek "religious" instructions from Muhammad, or any other source beside God, we support Satan in his claim that God needs a partner.”
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The criterion of divine revelation is perfect preservation, so the vastly corrupted Hadith and Sunna can never be divine revelation, and most Hadiths are false fabrications.“Obviously, they are not aware that the criterion of divine revelation is PERFECT PRESERVATION. Since the socalled hadith & sunna of the Prophet have been vastly corrupted, they can never meet the criterion of divine revelation.”“It is an acknowledged fact that the vast majority of Hadiths are false fabrications.”
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The language of Hadith is in fact extremely difficult, so it is false that Hadith is needed to explain a difficult Quran.“Because the fabricators of "Hadith" belonged to various tribes and even countries, with various dialects, slangs, and accents, the language of "Hadith" is in fact extremely difficult.”
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The most authoritative Hadith books report that the Prophet forbade writing anything from him except the Quran, so Hadith followers disobey their own teachings.“The most authoritative books of Hadith, namely, Muslim & Ibn Hanbal, report that the Prophet ordered that no one shall take anything from him EXCEPT QURAN.”“Do not write anything from me EXCEPT QURAN. Anyone who wrote anything other than Quran shall erase it.”"The messenger of God ordered us never to write anything of his Hadith."
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The Quran is the only true Hadith of Muhammad, delivered from his mouth directly to the revelation writers without mediators, and all other Hadiths are misleading fabrications.“Quran is the only "Hadith" to be followed; all other Hadiths are blasphemous and misleading fabrications:”“The Quran came through Muhammad's mouth, directly to the ears of the revelation writers who scrupulously wrote it down the moment it was uttered.”“Thus, Quran is the only true Hadith of Muhammad.”
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The true love of Muhammad is to recognize him as a human and uphold the Quran alone, and he disowns Hadith followers on the Day of Judgment.“The true love of Muhammad is to recognize him as a human and to follow his teachings, i.e., UPHOLD QURAN AND NOTHING BUT QURAN.”“Those who follow "Hadith & Sunna" are named as Muhammad's enemies, and Muhammad disowns them on the Day of Judgment as we see below:”“On the day of judgment, Muhammad will be the first to complain that his followers had abandoned Quran, in favor of the fabrications by his enemies (Hadith & Sunna):”
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Victory is guaranteed for true believers, so today's defeated Muslims cannot be true Muslims, because they accepted Hadith and Sunna beside the Quran.“The Quran teaches, unequivocally, that victory is GUARANTEED for the Muslims:”“In view of the guarantees shown on the previous page, and since God is never wrong, the "Muslims" of today could not possibly be Muslims.”“Because they have accepted other sources, namely, Hadith and Sunna, beside Quran.”
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While the Muslims upheld the Quran alone they led the world, and progressive deterioration began when Hadith and Sunna appeared in the third century AH.“For as long as the Muslim Ummah upheld Quran, and nothing but Quran, the Muslims led the world scientifically, technologically, culturally, socially, militarily, and economically.”“With the appearance of Hadith & Sunna at the beginning of the third century AH, a progressive deterioration of the Muslim Ummah began.”
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