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Unacceptable reports in the Sahihayn and judging a hadith by its content
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machinesummary, machine-writtenSahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim contain some reports scholars reject as wrong, so a report is judged by its content as well as its chain. Their sanctification came centuries later.
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Mufti Abu Layth says it is undeniable that Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim contain reports that scholars do not accept. He gives the Bukhari report from Anas placing the night journey three years before prophethood, which he says is unanimously held to be wrong, and the Sahih Muslim report in which Abu Sufyan, after accepting Islam, asks the Prophet to marry his daughter Umm Habibah, which he says all scholars call false because the Prophet had married her about two years earlier. He says these collections contain well-preserved reports but that their sanctification came centuries later and was never the attitude of the school of Madinah or the school of Kufa, which analysed a report by its chain and by its content, setting aside what contradicted reason and the wider narrative of Islam. He cites al-Tahawi reasoning against the report that a black dog is a devil, since colour has no such effect in other animals and dogs share the same rulings. He then restates that Aisha was not six or nine but in her late teens.
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Mufti Abu Layth holds that Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim contain some reports that are not acceptable, and that a report should be judged by its content as well as its chain.
“it is undeniable that the books like sahkari and sah Muslim it is undeniable that they have unacceptable Hadith in them”
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been contrasted and opposed by huge Traditions within Orthodox Islam like the school of Madina Imam Malik who on many occasions countless occasions would they would reject Hadith because they did not believe it to be the Sunnah even if the chain was another key point just before we uh move away from this topic is to understand that it is undeniable that the books like sahkari and sah Muslim it is undeniable that they have unacceptable Hadith in them this is very important to understand as
an example let me tell you there is a Hadith in sahkari uh which comes under and it speaks about is the night journey of the Prophet Sall alaihi wasallam it is reported by anus and it states that the messenger of Allah went on this night Journey three years before he even became a prophet that is UN I mean that is unanimously wrong inaccurate and
false all these people have declared it to be other Scholars just said that means fabricated other Scholars just said this is just inaccurate nobody disputes that point there there is a Hadith as an example in sah Muslim that uh Abu sufyan after he became Muslim uh he was kind of suffering a backlash so he approaches the prophet and says look allow me these three and amongst them he says that allow me to marry you to my daughter omab all the scholars accept that that Hadith is false and inaccurate because
the prophet had already married umab over almost two years before that event so there is no dispute about that this is to make us understand that that yesah uh do contain well preserved Hadith these books of Hadith do contain but this process of sanctifying them this was something that took place much later on in the centuries that followed and it was not the attitude of all Muslim scholarly thought in fact huge Traditions like the school of Madina
never even the school of kufa they never really went down that road they always saw that a Hadith would be analyzed from two perspectives it would be analyzed by its chain but even by its content if it did contradict reason and the greater narrative of Islam it was immediately problematized and left rejected they would not accept it and they would reason with Hadith and a good example of that even with uh within the school of kufa you see Imam tahawi when he's uh commenting on the Hadith of a uh of a of a black dog being a devil a
demon and he says when we look at this from reason this makes no sense because every other dog is normal it's not a and the color black in other animals has no impact so he says and dogs generally share the same rulings in everything so this clearly is an inaccuracy so he highlights that and we can see once again this reasoning approach of Hadith relativism so it's important to understand that okay so we've got the historicity of how the Muslims early Muslims would love
things how they would log dates years things like that and also what is the perspective and approach towards Hadith okay when it'sah now with that in mind we can now engage the question first of all just to clarify once again to reiterate uh that was not six or nine at the time of her marriage and she was was in her late teens and that's something we'll demonstrate shortly but also as part of the question somebody who rejects that understanding that's in bukari of 6 and
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