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.
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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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?
2. The same hadith is narrated by a major student of Abu Hurayra, Saeed ibn al Mussayib, but without attributing to Abu Huraira, in a mursal form.
Was Abu Hurayra mistakenly added in the other isnad? Why would a major student of Abu Hurayra narrate it through another route?
3. Another hadith, this time the expiation is not 60 days anymore, no slave to free, no 60 poor people to feed but it is only one day . shamela.ws/book/13174/801…
It was the way Southern Arabs called God or Allah, according to archaeology and Late Sabaic inscriptions.
"Al-Rahman" (الرحمن) is most probably an arabization of this name of God.
This name has no specific link whatsoever to Mercy: archives are full of uses of "Rḥmnn" in various contexts, such as invoking power, protection and health from this entity.
This name was used by both Christians and Jews in Yemen and Southern Arabia.
I did a work, using the Qur'an, and checked how and when the name "Al Rahman" was used, and compared it with the use of al Rahim.
Al-Rahim has a very strong link to Mercy (forgiving sins, compassion, being Ever Relenting/Ghafur), no question about this.