Question on Hadeeth in Muslim

[jello]

I have a question with respect to the following Hadeeth in Saheeh Muslim


Book 039, Hadith Number 6707.
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Chapter : The beginning of the creation and the creation of Adam (peace be upon him).

Abu Haraira reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) took hold of my hands and said: Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, created the clay on Saturday and He created the mountains on Sunday and He created the trees on Monday and He created the things entailing labour on Tuesday and created light on Wednesday and lie caused the animals to spread on Thursday and created Adam (peace be upon him) after 'Asr on Friday; the last creation at the last hour of the hours of Friday, i.e. between afternoon and night.

I would like to know how the following Hadeeth goes along with the statements made in the Quran about creation, such as in Verses 41:9-12, 32:4, etcetera.

Also, for me it seems strange that specific days would be mentioned, like (Saturday, SUnday ,etc.). Plus, would this sequesnce of events be a contradiction to the concept of six days of creation (in this Hadeeth it clearly says sevem days, from Saturday till Friday).

Thanks and hoipng for the correct response.

[Abul Hasan]

I have a question with respect to the following Hadeeth in Saheeh Muslim


Book 039, Hadith Number 6707.
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Chapter : The beginning of the creation and the creation of Adam (peace be upon him).

Abu Haraira reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) took hold of my hands and said: Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, created the clay on Saturday and He created the mountains on Sunday and He created the trees on Monday and He created the things entailing labour on Tuesday and created light on Wednesday and lie caused the animals to spread on Thursday and created Adam (peace be upon him) after 'Asr on Friday; the last creation at the last hour of the hours of Friday, i.e. between afternoon and night.

I would like to know how the following Hadeeth goes along with the statements made in the Quran about creation, such as in Verses 41:9-12, 32:4, etcetera.

Also, for me it seems strange that specific days would be mentioned, like (Saturday, SUnday ,etc.). Plus, would this sequesnce of events be a contradiction to the concept of six days of creation (in this Hadeeth it clearly says sevem days, from Saturday till Friday).

Thanks and hoipng for the correct response.

:Salam:

I don't have time to check the original arabic references and discussion surrounding this Hadith, but one should try to look at what Imam al Nawawi had to say in his Sharh on Sahih Muslim. Any way the scholars of Hadith have difference of opinion on its very authenticity! For now, the following claims by the "Salafi" Suhaib Hasan in his Intro to the Science of Hadith is interesting:

An example of a ma'lul hadith is one transmitted
by Muslim on the authority of Abu Hurairah, who
reports the Prophet (may Allah bless him and
grant him peace) as saying,

"Allah created the land on Saturday; He
created the mountains on Sunday; He created
the trees on Monday; He created the things
entailing labour on Tuesday; He created the
light (or fish) on Wednesday; He scattered
the beasts in it (the earth) on Thursday;
and He created Adam after the afternoon of
Friday, the last creation at the last hour
of the hours of Friday, between the
afternoon and night."63

Regarding it, Ibn Taimiyyah says,

"Men more knowledgeable than Muslim, such
as al-Bukhari and Yahya b. Ma'in, have
criticised it. Al-Bukhari said, 'This
saying is not that of the Prophet (may
Allah bless him and grant him peace), but
one of Ka'b al-Ahbar'."64

footnotes:

63 Sahih Muslim, 4:2149 (English transl.,
IV:1462, Sharh Nawawi, 17:133).
64 Ibn Taimiyyah, Majmu' Fatawa (37 vols., ed.
'Abd al-Rahman b. Qasim & his son Muhammad,
Riyad, 1398), 18:18f. Ibn Taimiyyah mentions
that Imam Muslim's authentication of this hadith
is supported by Abu Bakr al-Anbari & Ibn al-
Jauzi, whereas al-Baihaqi supports those who
disparaged it. Al-Albani says that it was Ibn
al-Madini who criticised it, whereas Ibn Ma'in
did not (the latter was known to be very strict,
both of them were shaikhs of al-Bukhari). He
further says that the hadith is sahih, and does
not contradict the Qur'an, contrary to the
probable view of the scholars who criticised the
hadith, since what is mentioned in the Qur'an is
the creation of the heavens and the earth in six
days, each of which may be like a thousand
years, whereas the hadith refers to the creation
of the earth only, in days which are shorter
than those referred to in the Qur'an (Silsilah
al-Ahadith as-Sahihah, no. 1833).

[Mossy]

There is a difference between referring to the creations of the earth AND heavens and the earth alone as is indeed referenced in them there footnotes with differentials of time with respect to both.

As for ma'lul.. Come on bro, it's Sahih Muslim

[Abul Hasan]

There is a difference between referring to the creations of the earth AND heavens and the earth alone as is indeed referenced in them there footnotes with differentials of time with respect to both.

As for ma'lul.. Come on bro, it's Sahih Muslim

If we read it carefully, it was clearly stated that the opinion that it may be Ma'lul was the view of those more learned than Imam Muslim, namely al Bukhari, Ibn Ma'in/or could be Ibn al Madini - all 3 of them were greater in I'lal al Hadith wal Jarh wal Ta'dil in comparison to Imam Muslim's knowledge.

Anyway, if you look into the commentaries to Bukhari and Muslim, you will find that there has always been a group of Hadith Masters who attempted to show I'lal even in the Sahihayn, examples: al Daraqutni compiled al Ilzamat wal Tatabbu - where he attempted to show some 200 Ma'lul narrations in the Sahihayn. I have a work in arabic on my hard-disk that i can post to you by a classical scholar trying to show ma'lul narrations in Sahih Muslim. Have you seen how some contemporary Ulama tried to show I'lal in the Sahih Muslim hadith mentioning the Slave girl saying in response to "Ayn Allah", "Fis-Sama"? Recently a book by Ibn al Jawzi has been printed in some 4 vols attempting to show problems in the Sahihayn.

In this time i have seen al-Albani, al Ghumari, al Saqqaf and some say al Kawthari trying to weaken some narartions in Bukhari or Muslim!

Hence, it is not so black and white, even though most Ulama agree that virtually everything in the Sahihayn is Sahih. Rather, no book is absolutely perfect except the Book of Allah. And Allahu a'lam.