Orientalists and ahadith

[Mikaeel]

salaamu aleikum wa rahmatullah.

im reading some orientalist pieces on the authenticity of Ahadith collections and the isnad science. They obviously do not think hadith are to be trusted. Can anyone recomend any detailed exposition and proof from the Sunni perspective on ahadith and isnads?

Jazakallah.

[YousefAbusSafar]

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[new muslim]

salaamu aleikum wa rahmatullah.

im reading some orientalist pieces on the authenticity of Ahadith collections and the isnad science. They obviously do not think hadith are to be trusted. Can anyone recomend any detailed exposition and proof from the Sunni perspective on ahadith and isnads?

Jazakallah.



:salam:


Here is one for you



the Jews received a Torah from Allah .. a couple of centuries later came the:



1.Mishnah http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishnah
2.Gemara http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemara




Then we received the Quran from Allah.. a couple of centuries later came the:


1.Hadith http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadith
2.Sunnah http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunnah

[Mikaeel]

the Quran-only fallacy has been refuted on every possible level, semantical, philosophical, historical and practical many times over. It is utterly baseless to try to promote it here.

[mustajab]

I hope tihs helps you.


The position is still the same, but some non-Muslim orientalists and some of their followers have tried, during the last century to cast some doubts in the authority or the veracity of Hadîth and to develop a suspicious attitude towards the Sunnah. That is why some Muslims who are unable to study Islam through its original sources, when they read such books, often become a bit skeptical in the subject.

The present article intends, therefore, to provide an objective and simple account of the SUNNAH based on the original sources of Islamic learning. The purpose is not to indulge in a hot atmosphere of argumentation which has no bounds or limits, but to narrate the truth as it stands.

The Authority of Sunnah by Muft Taq Usmani http://ccminc.faithweb.com/iqra/articles/authsun/index.html