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Achilles' heel of Muslims are 3:

1. Unscientific ahadith (fly in the glass, sun prostrating under the throne every night). Ka'b Al Ahbar words turned into prophetic ahadith.

Generally attributed to: Abu Huraira, Ibn Abbas, Abu Darda, Abu Sa'id al Khudri.
2. Awful and crual behavior attributed to the Prophet ﷺ: great focus on jihad, killing babies is ok, murders, eyes removal, etc.

Generally made-up stories by Umayyad rulers in order to justify their own ruthlessness, and Ibn Ishaq's legends he transmitted.

All false.
3. Compromission with idolaters: Prophet ﷺ allegedly eating meat sacrificed to the idols during jahiliya, satanic verses story, and other made up stories.

Again, all false, but it requires detailed investigation in every case.
The worst slanders against the Prophet ﷺ are not cartoons and non-muslim attacks, it's the work of early transmitters who transmitted everything and anything.

It's a pill hard to swallow but yes, Muslims are the biggest slanderers of their own Prophet ﷺ.

#SatanicVerses
As long as you consider the ahadith as "true until proven otherwise" you're wrong and don't follow the sahabas methodology. It's all lies until proven otherwise. And imo truly authentic ahadith are very few. You'll notice great wisdom, few words used, only greatness of character.
Once you understand and discover the true personality of the Prophet ﷺ with the tiny sample of truly authentic ahadith, you fall out of your chair. You understand why "he was a walking Quran". You understand why the sahabas loved him so much.

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May 12
Do you know the "golden chain" (Silsilat al-Dhahab) of hadith transmission?

It goes: Malik → Nafi' → Ibn 'Umar

It's the most reliable chain of hadith transmission according to the major hadith masters, especially Bukhari, because Ibn 'Umar was a companion of the Prophet, Nafi' was his very close student and stayed with him for a very long time (he was originally his slave), and Malik was a master in hadith. All of them stayed for a long time in Madina.

In theory, the stars were aligned for a flawless isnad.

Showing this isnad doesn't necessarily bring certainty, or bring errors and approximations, would mean the most reliable isnad of the hadith corpus is... unreliable.

That's exactly what we will show now. This chain is all but reliable, not because of Malik but because of Nafi' (and also because of the multiple versions of the muwatta but that's another story).

We will study Nafi' and his multiple contradictions.

Of course, hadith scholars with their black belt in intellectual gymnastics tend to challenge all the transmitters from Nafi' but they will never challenge Nafi' himself, because he is a semi-god (!) in hadith science. If there is an error in transmission it MUST BE because of his students, it CAN NEVER BE him contradicting himself.

Introducing the story of the jariyah and meat slaughtered by a woman.Image
To wrap things up, there is a story of a maidservant (jariyah) who slaughtered a sheep which was about to die, and the Prophet told people they should/could eat the meat.

This hadith is used in fiqh in order to allow people to eat from animals slaughtered by women.

Here an excerpt of the different chains:
1. Daraqutni version:

🔗Nafi'
→ Ibn 'Umar
→ Ka'b b. Malik: he asked the Prophet about his maidservant/herder...

shamela.ws/book/9082/4900
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Jun 26, 2023
Do you know, Sufyan ibn Uyayna, the very famous imam from Makkah?

1️⃣Al-Razi: Super reliable (thiqah imam), "the most reliable students in the hadith of Zuhri were Ibn Uyayna and Malik".

2️⃣Ali b. Al madini: who is stronger than Ibn Uyayna in the hadith of Zuhri? (save this one) Image
So, when I see Sufyan from Zuhri, I'm pretty confident that: "the hadith really comes from Zuhri".



Example: we ask Sufyan about a hadith "are you sure?? Because Ma'mar says it's Zuhri→Sa'id b. al Musayyib (mursal)!"

He's overconfident: "yes I'm sure". shamela.ws/book/8493/261#…

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Indeed, this hadith is known from Ma'mar from Zuhri from Sa'id, in a mursal version.

This is a big deal: Sufyan is claiming the hadith is marfu', with another isnad, so he is adding the last brick to the isnad, transforming it into something "sahih".

shamela.ws/book/84/5187

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May 20, 2023
Let's say we have a hadith that goes back to a sahabi, and he mass transmitted it to its students.

In the hadith, he says "The Prophet said x, y, z" or he says "On the authority of the Prophet: x, y, z".

Does it mean he ABSOLUTELY heard it with his own ears?

Not at all.
We assume that when a sahabi narrates something from the Prophet, it means he was there, and he was a direct witness.

This was not always the case, far from it!

Here are 6 examples showing sahabas MIGHT narrate hadiths they didn't hear/narrate things they didn't SEE.
1) When young sahabas narrate things from a period they weren't even born.

Ex: Ibn Abbas describing things from the Meccan period. He wasn't even born. Impossible for him to witness it directly.

So he has a source, but who is his source? "Another sahabi, so it's fine anyway".
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May 19, 2023
No one should be allowed to burn the mushaf except Uthman b. 'Affan 🤓
Abd-alMuttalib: "By Allah, we do not want to fight [Abraha]. So far as this House (the Ka'bah) is concerned, it is the House of Allah; if Allah wants to save His House, He will save it, and if He leaves it unprotected, no one can save it."

Both Sunnis and Shias accept this story
Am I really taking as an example of stoicism, chillness and full confidence in Allah the legend of the grandfather of the Prophet ﷺ? In the end you have to be consistent.

How arrogant to think one is "helping Allah" when getting angry and emotional in front of a Mushaf burning?
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May 16, 2023
Do hadiths imply certainty?

When you read a hadith, does that mean the report is accurate and the story REALLY happened?

Sunnism has been taken over long time ago by hadith-absolutists who claim "hadith implies certainty".

Actually for sunnis, you have 2 groups:
Group 1: Sahih ahad hadith DOESN'T IMPLY certainty according to Ash'aris, Maturidis, Usul scholars. Hadith implies "adh dhan": presumption.

Group 2: Sahih ahad hadith IMPLIES certainty according to Ibn Hanbal, Ibn Khuzaymah, Ibn mindah, and muhaddithin in general.
Group 1: Ahad (sahih) hadith isn't accepted in 'aqida, because how you would base your faith and beliefs on presumption (adh dhan)?

Group 2: The one who rejects ahad sahih hadith is a mu'tazili, a jahmi, etc. It's like rejecting the Prophet's order.
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Apr 1, 2023
Fasting on Mondays and Thursdays:

1. In the Mishna:

sefaria.org/Shulchan_Arukh… Image
2. From Abdallah ibn Dinar, from Ka'b al Ahbar (the rabbi) when he was telling tales in Damascus, deeds are presented on every Monday and Thursday:

shamela.ws/book/71/31132 ImageImage
3. Abu Hurayrah used to fast on Monday and Thursday and believed that the deeds are presented to Allah on these two days:

shamela.ws/book/71/30885 ImageImage
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