False Hadith: The Prophet ﷺ Was Poisoned Before He Died

I've been asked the question, was the prophet poisoned before his death? Now, let me bring the hadith and then I'm going to also show you why hadith dogmatism is problematic and present to you something which I call the war wager hadith paradox. So, what is that about people?

Stay tuned. Stay tuned. That's what I'm talking about. So first of all this hadith. So right now the there is a there is a notion people that the prophet was poisoned and died as a result of this poison. Now many ex-Muslims and atheists and Islamophobes have taken it to social media saying that look the prophet died a humiliating death.

uh the prophet of Islam having been poisoned um and th this hadith is in Bkari and Muslim and Abu D and Di and Musn Ahmed and all these hadith books. So what is this hadith about? So there's a hadith and what I'll do is take the main one which is in Bkari and it does have uh it kind of it resonates in Abu D as well and the sunnah of and the Ahmed.

Now the hadith uh states that the prophet said in his um in in in his dying illness that I continue to find or I still feel the pain of the food that the food that I ate in which was the poisoned food that I ate

So this is the time in which this is the time in which that poison is cutting my aort the arteries to my heart. Now, so basically what the prophet is saying in this hadith, if this hadith be true, which it isn't, but I'm just going to say if this hadith be true, the prophet is saying I at this stage am finding that poison finally killing me.

The poison which we ate back in uh three years prior to this incident. Now this hadith is in Bkari. It is in Abu Dharmi. It has and there's variations to this story which are in Sah Muslim and in other books. Now first of all this is nonsense. Okay the prophet did not die of poisoning. I don't know which genius along the way got this idea to somehow think I know why you know that it would be awesome if the prophet was not only a prophet but also a martyr.

I mean I don't know at what stage this incident got fabricated or people recreated this event but they did. This hadith or this story is massively contradictory. I will show the contradiction and then also show from the chain perspective why it is unacceptable. So let's take a look at the chain first. taking the strongest which is Sahil Bkari uh and it has its uh chain in Dharmi and Abu Daw and Muslims Ahmed.

So in Sah Bkari hadith number 4428 is narrated from Ununice from Zi [Music] who says that said that I still continue to find this poison from that food. Now ununice the problem with ununice right here ali is that Abu Zur has transmitted about him that when he would not transmit from something that was written it was as though he had nothing.

He was not a a scholar a master of hadith. He was not a he says [Music] he was if he was trying to narrate from memory he was unreliable. Okay. Im Ahmed states about him. He was not somebody that even knew hadith.

Um and he mentions that that he would often mix up hadith like sometimes he would be transmitting one hadith from somebody over here, one from somebody over here and he would put parts of it with him and parts of it with him. So Ununice there are already huge problems with him. um transmits about him.

He says, "I saw Ununice and he was terrible in his memory." The famous says about him that he's not an evidence and he says and sometimes he brings some that are unacceptable. Okay. Second person in the chain is Zuhari and Zui here is not saying he heard and he is a has put him from the in his uh book considers him to be a considers him to be a unacceptable.

The chain is is not connected. He himself who alim also mentions that some of his narrations he also kind of tries to cover up sometimes because he hasn't heard them directly. Some of his narrations he hears through his brother Abdullah and highlights that there's problems sometimes with as does Nasiwa here himself does not say I heard he just says so as you can see this chain is problematic there is a varying chain bringing the same hadith in Abu D and that chain has

the person in it Muhammadbnari who says problematizes as a problematic narrator as does im Malik as does even says that although he's a a truthful person but he makes mistakes and said he's considered weak as well right now and then there's a narration in Muslim Ahmed once again it comes from Zi with so it's unacceptable right now you'll find that with most of the chains But now let's go to the content of this hadith.

The problem with the content of this hadith people is this is the incident that after the battle of which you know was a uh I mean had just it I mean it was a very difficult kind of battle the siege uh the whole kind of bloodshed everything people are aware of that. Now after that according to this incident the prophet uh was invited by a Jewish woman to eat some food.

So he goes along and in this hadith which is in Abu D him and the companion and other companions go to eat this food amongst them you've got amongst them. Now they sit to eat and whilst they're eating the angel tells the prophet that don't eat it. there's poison in it. So the prophet refrains and says hey stop stop people stop eating it but bish has already eaten it.

Therefore bishar dies or in some narrations he dies there in some narrations he dies within a few days. Now when he dies then and then once again the narrations disagree. Some say when he dies then the prophet asks the old this old lady. Some say no. He asks the old lady there and then, "Why did you poison us?" And she says, "Well, because if you're a prophet, you were going to find out anyway, weren't you?" So then the prophet responds.

She says, "Well, if you weren't a prophet, I would have killed you for what happened in if you were a prophet, well, you ought to find out anyway." And the prophet in Muslim's narration says [Music] that Allah would not let you carry out something like that. Now check this out. He will not let you poison me. This is that same hadith.

What is it saying in Bkari? Oh, I'm finding that poison is now killing off my arteries. It's cutting off my arteries, my aorta. This is already a contradiction. The fact that dies from that poison, how can that poison take three years when Bishar has already died from it? So Bishop eats it and he's dead and the other person eats it and hey, lo and behold, 3 years later, he dies.

That's not how that kind of poison can work. So somebody had asked, can this be equivalent to toxic radiation? No, it can't. This is not radiation. This is poison. Okay, the person who ate it, the people who ate it, Bishar allegedly, I mean this whole incident is fabricated. But according to this story, Bishar dies there and then or within a few hours or at most a few days he dies.

That's in the narration, the Abu Dawud, that's in the other texts. So if he dies, how can other people or the prophet take years up to three years to die? That is nonsensical. The other thing is according to the same hadith in Muslim, the prophet said to the old lady, Allah would not let you get away with something like that. He would not, sorry, he would not allow empower you to do something like that.

Okay. So, so that contradicts massively. I this is a huge problem. You can't accept this. The other thing is that this goes to show that you see Allah said in the Quran that that oh messenger of God that stand up with the message Allah will protect you and here evidently Allah has not then protected him that Allah says that we will protect you from people but evidently he didn't because he was poisoned and he

died. So this and then that's actually a good verse as well that Allah mentions as said that Allah mentions that look if the prophet had been um had been making up verses against us, we would have seized him and we would have cut his aort and that we would have cut him from his arteries as in that would have been finished.

Now the wording of this hadith although using different words is referring to the same kind of phenomenon of I feel my arteries or aorta is being cut off. So non-Muslims could then use that to show well maybe the prophet was making things up because the Quran said that if he had made up certain verses against us, this is the kind of death that God would have given him.

He would have cut off his aorta and arteries as a a punishment as the Quran states. Now you see this is an humiliating kind of response. This is not dignifying our prophet. This is humiliating him. Not to mention the fact that the then they say well the prophet said oh here's a hadith uh that whoever eats such and such dates can never be impacted by poison or by magic.

And then ironically what are the two things they say the prophet was impacted by? Magic and poison. I mean this is ridiculous. This is an insult to our prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. This is why people we need to stop stop giving these primacy above the Quran. We need to learn from the the examples of Im Malik Im Abu Hanifh that when a hadith comes that contradicts the overall message of the Quran you need to put it aside.

Look when I imam Malik when the hadith came to him uh that the dog this is how what when a dog licks your bowl and you must wash it and he said look I accept that it has come with a solid chain I accept that he said but the Quran teaches us something different we don't know what this hadith is on about we're going to put it aside we're not going to accept it it's problematic it cannot be a true hadith And he said by accepting these oneon-one the dean will be snatched from in front of you.

Aliden has asked what if the poison was delayed as a miracle. As a miracle of what? Of humiliation to humiliate the prophet because the Quran seems to suggest that this is the kind of death you will get if you lie against God. And lo and behold, that's what these people are saying is the kind of death the prophet suffered. So once again, you see, you can't have it.

And uh is is the companion right sorry just one moment just reading this. um and bishop is the companion who dies there and then according to this incident.

So that is really important. So this is the whole this is why because the reason I'm saying this people so just so verse you've got 44 uh going into 45 and 46 shows this that look that the Quran had of the prophet made up the Quran that we would have seized him then we would have cut off his supply.

Now to say that he died in a way which he had his kind of aort and arteries cut off as is the description of the prophet himself saying I'm feeling this in reverse engineering can almost make this verse apply to him. So it's a humiliation. So it's saying inadvertently that the prophet was humiliated and that is unacceptable. Let alone the fact that the story is ridiculous and the fact that look look in all honesty if you took this verse to if you took this incident to be true let's just investigate it.

So the prophet is there. The angel comes to teach the prophet that hey there's poison in that food. But what they can't do it fast enough to save the life of bish no what the angel can't come fast enough like what god I mean what what what is going since the angel's going to come anyway since you're going to break all the laws of nature and and have intervention anyway to save all because in the same hadith the prophet said raise your hands from the food.

you know, don't eat the food. Don't eat the food. But bishop had eaten it. So, he died. So, the prophet failed in saving all his companions. And the angel Giblis what you know, an atheist could argue that well, you know, okay, he saved all of these, but he failed in saving one person. I mean, why not just come a bit quicker since you're going to come anyway?

So I mean you see because either the angel is not going to come or he is going to come. If he is going to come why is he coming to save the people from this poison but well one person died so that's still a failure. Okay you could say that there's some success. There's relatively okay saved all these people but he failed on one companion. So it's still an insult. And then the prophet being poisoned is an insult.

And this is how the prophet dies by suffering with that poison and dying. What a ridiculous statement. This hadith is a false hadith. The chain is unacceptable. As I mentioned, it has these people like Zuhari. It has it's unacceptable. Ununice is critiqued and all these things and these other and then it clashes with the Quran with the teaching of the Quran and general understanding of Islam.

Okay. So people with that I want to take us to somebody said that's called that's called destiny. No it isn't called destiny that's called uh that's just simply called humiliation. To say that the Jews poisoned our prophet and he died as a consequence uh of that is actually what you don't realize is you're insulting Islam.

You're insulting God and you're insulting our prophet because our prophet did not die because somebody poisoned because that's like saying well you know really the prophet ought to have lived on but the Jews kind of finished him off. I mean what what a ridiculous thing to say. So people please just think sometimes what you're actually saying.