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[quote][font=Courier New]We surely have our eyes, ears and brains; that is why we hold firm to the Hadith and Sunnah.

Ahadith were not scattered around in the world like fairytales or jokes are scattered today. They were with the people through a teacher-student chain. The teacher conveyed Ahadith to his student and the student to his student and so on until they reached the scholars of Ahadith like Imam Bukhari (RA).

Ahadith are rejected by calling them a source out of the Qur’an whereas certain other arguments are presented (for example, against the character of Imam Bukhari (RA)) which are also nowhere in the Qur’an and even authentic history. This dual-standard is not understandable.

The Ahadith that were taken from the child companions (RA) are a few in Sahi Bukahri and, for anyone’s information, people also rejected to take the Ahadith from these children at the time of the Prophet (SAW) but the Prophet (SAW) himself approved them.

The Prophet (SAW) predicted in one of his sayings that an era will come when people would sit back on the soft beds and say that we do not need any saying of the Prophet (SAW) as the book of Allah is enough for us. This is exactly what is happening today. Another point must be appreciated here that the prophecies being told in the Ahadith are coming true, word by word, one after the other. The most famous of these prophecies are the signs regarding the end times.

The life-histories of over six hundred thousand people were collected in books from whom the Ahadith were taken. This is no easy job. Whereas, it is so easy to reject all such efforts by some easy words of mouth. Extreme care was taken in collecting the Ahadith from the individuals. They were not taken from a person who was even accused of a slightest of deviation from the Qur’an or Sunnah. Once Imam Bukhari (RA) traveled a long way to take a Hadith from someone. When he reached the city where the one lived, he saw some footsteps of the people, on the sand, who had disappeared after offering a prayer with congregation. There was a person nearby. Imam Bukhari (RA) asked him who offered the prayer there. He told that a few people from the City nearby. He further asked who was leading the prayer. He took the name of the very person from whom Imam Bukhari (RA) had to take the Hadith. When he heard his name, he returned home from there without collecting the Hadith from him. The reason was that the footsteps of the person showed that he didn’t stand in his prayer the way Prophet (SAW) used to stand. Imam Bukhari (RA) thought that the Hadith shouldn’t be taken from the man who stood in a different way in his prayer as compared to the Prophet (SAW). This is one example of the care being taken in collecting the Ahadith from the narrators.

I wonder why people only believe that nothing else was Divine on the lips of the Prophet (SAW) except the Qur’an. If only a book would have to be sent, there was no need to reveal it on the heart of the Prophet (SAW). It could be placed on a mountain or tree. The reason why the Book was revealed to the Prophet (SAW) is that it was also the responsibility of him to explain it to his people. This explanation is Hadith. Where the Qur’an presents the responsibilities of the Prophet (SAW), it doesn’t only say that his responsibility was to recite the verses of the Qur’an to people and nothing more. But, it adds that his responsibility was to “teach the book” and “wisdomas well. This teaching of the Book and wisdom within the Book is incorporated in the Hadith.

Look at the words of the Qur’an:

[b]“Our Lord! And raise up in their midst a messenger from among them who shall recite unto them Thy revelations, and shall instruct them in the Scripture and in wisdom and shall make them grow. Lo! Thou, only Thou, art the Mighty, Wise.” (Al-Baqarah, 129)[/b]
The esteemed teacher, Javed Ahmad Ghamidi, is the most genius and educated personality that I’ve ever seen in my life. If you have any doubt about his knowledge and wisdom, I challenge you to send a team of scholars again him on the very issue in Aaj Islam (the famous TV Program). The issue will be decided in an hour or so, insha’Allah.[/font=Courier New][/quote]

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