Invention of Hadith started early by the Prophet’s companions, and
during the period of the ‘Great Sedition’. This is when the Umayyads
(who were holders of power during Mecca’s polytheistic period) at the
time of Caliph ‘Othman’ decided they needed to regain their lost power
after the spread of Islam in Mecca. The spread of Islam caused the
elimination of the cast system, removal of social boundaries between
rich and poor, and the elimination of the slave system. They went to
“utilize” Abu-Hureira to defend them using Hadith ‘sayings’ that he
claimed to have heard coming out of the Prophet Muhamed’s mouth. Abu
Hureira was one of those who had met Prophet Muhamed and accompanied him
for only 1.5 years, and was known to have spread narrations using the
Prophet’s name for social status and gains. Umayyads also utilized
another person by the name of ‘Ka’ab Al-Ahbar’ to spread sayings and
narrations in the name of the Prophet. Ka’ab was not a companion of the
Prophet but was classified as a ‘Tabi’ee’ i.e. a ‘follower’ of the
Prophets companions, he was originally a Jewish scholar from Yemen who
had become a Muslim during Caliph Omar’s time or some claim Abu-Bakir’s
time. He was known to have discussed the well known ‘Israelites’ with
the Prophets companions and was well versed in various religious
references used by the Jews, he later lived and died in Syria.
When Mo’aweya the Umayyad became Caliph, he established a special
position within his government called ‘Al-Qass’as’ i.e. ‘The Story
Teller’. The only main objective of this position was to enhance the
political stature of the Caliph through Hadith and stories. With this
position established, and under the leadership of Abu-Hureira, the first
age of oral narrations of Hadith was established that accompanied the
‘Great Sedition’, which transformed into a military campaign that
resulted in the full establishment of the Umayyad Caliphate.
The ‘Great Sedition’ that the Umayyad Caliphate resulted from was the
split among the Prophet’s companions of who should become Caliph, all
falling to human desire of leadership and power, this resulted in Ali
(Prophets cousin and son in-law) and Fatima (Prophets daughter) claiming
they had the rightful claim to leadership due to their hereditary ties
to the Prophet, while remaining companions also claimed family ties to
the Prophet and preferred implementing consensus to elect the Caliph
position. The ‘Great Sedition’ later ended by the beheading of
Al-Hussein (the Prophets grandson/Ali’s son) and the establishment of
Mo’aweya the Umayyad as Caliph. But the most powerful after effect of
this fall to human desire for leadership and power was the division of
the vast majority of Muslims to two sects, Sunnis who followed the
Umayyads and Shia who followed Ali.
Those same companions who causelsquo;Great Sedition’ that the Umayyad
Caliphate resulted from was the split among the Prophet’s companions of
who should become Caliph, all falling to human desire of leadership and
power, this resulted in Ali (Prophets cousin and son in-law) and Fatima
(Prophets daughter) claiming they had the rightful claim to leadership
due to their hereditary ties to the Prophet, while remaining companions
also claimed family ties to the Prophet and preferred implementing
consensus to elect the Caliph position. The ‘Great Sedition’ later
ended by the beheading of Al-Hussein (the Prophets grandson/Ali’s son)
and the establishment of Mo’aweya the Umayyad as Caliph. But the most
powerful after effect of this fall to human desire for leadership and
power was the division of the vast majority of Muslims to two sects,
Sunnis who followed the Umayyads and Shia who followed Ali.
Those same companions who caused the ‘Great Sedition’ after the deaths
of Gods Prophet (Muhamed) are considered infallible and even
super-humans by Sunnis and Shia, who have written their own version of
history of the ‘Great Sedition’. Those same companions idolized by
Sunnis and Shia failed to follow the Prophet Muhamed’s example in
implementing the Quran by spreading peace and using force only in self
defense, not in aggression. Those same companions, if one, nowadays,
mentions their negative human traits and mistakes, is considered an
apostate.
The second important stage of embedding and engraining Hadith into the
Muslim doctrine comes during the Abbasid dynasty that followed the
Umayyad dynasty. During this stage, Hadith transitioned from oral
narration to written narration. Part of the process was to add
‘Referencing’ of Hadith called ‘Isnad’ in Arabic. Humans that lived
and died during the Umyyad era and Rashidi era (Rashidi era is the era
that followed the Prophet’s death) were used as references. Referencing
was implemented by mentioning the names of those who orally narrated
the Hadith going back consecutively throughout several generations up to
Prophet Muhamed’s time.
Shafi’i, Bukhari, and Muslim were one of the main contributors to
Hadith referencing. Shafi’i (lived 150 – 240 Hijri ,i.e. after P.
Muhamed migration from Mecca to Medina) has the significance of writing a
paper on the establishment of Sunni jurisprudence and left behind an
encyclopedia in jurisprudence called ‘Al-Um’, that later became the
reference book in the Shafi’i branch of Sunnisim.
As for Bukhari (who died 256 years Hijri), who had an undeserved
reputation for his book (Sahih Bukhari). This is because his student
Muslim, who authored (Sahih Muslim) was much better organized. Also,
Muslim’s (Sahih Muslim) had a more methodical introduction that
explained various stages of Hadith indoctrination from oral to written
to referencing. In his book, Muslim mentions he selected Hadiths from a
total pool of 300,000 and ended up with only 1%. i.e., 3033 Hadiths
that were considered, the remainder were classified as lies and
untrustworthy!!! He also belied the most common and popular Hadiths in
his time. Hadiths approved by Muslim formed the basis of the Sunni
religion, and some of these Hadiths approved by Muslim were narrated as
dreams and divine inspirations seen by their narrators, where they had
dream conversations with Prophet Muhamed after his death!!! Although
the Quran clearly informs us that divine inspiration from God ended when
the Quran was completed and delivered to P. Muhamed (see Quran 5:3) and
that devils cannot inspire anything similar to the Quran (26:210-212).
The Quran also informs of satanic inspirations given to satans
supporters and enemies of Gods Prophets that would continue to the rise
of the final hour (Judgment day) (26:221-223) and the masses would
listen to these decorative inspirations and commit crimes and atrocities
seeking forgiveness and reward (6:112-114). From all of these verses,
God warns us from these satanic inspirations that would lead to the
establishment of an earth religion.
This actually occurred when Muslim names part of his book (The Part
where Referencing is of Religion) (Bab ina alisnad min al-deen), where
he admits that Hadith referencing was unknown to Muslims during the time
of P. Muhamed and to the Prophet himself, but is part and parcel of
Gods religion!!!! This implicitly means that P.Muhamed did not fully
deliver the message, and that the undelivered part was unknown to him,
and therefore Muslim, Bukhari and Shafi’i, were doing all Muslims a
favor by discovering and implementing it !!!!
Assuming, hypothetically speaking, that P.Muhamed did order the
writing of Hadith, does not this contradict with a Hadith narrated by
Ahmed, Muslim, Darimi, Tirmithi, and Al-Nisa’I from Abi-Sa’id Alkhidri
that Gods messenger (Muhamed) said ‘Do not write anything from me except
the Quran, and whoever writes from me anything other than the Quran,
he/she shall erase it’. Another, were Darimi who was Bukhari’s teacher
narrated from Abi-Sa’id Alkhidri that ‘they tried to gain permission
from Gods Prophet (Peace be Upon Him) to document his sayings, he denied
them’. Another incident was when Za’id bin Thabit, one of the famous
Quranic inscribers who accompanied P.Muhamed entered upon Mo’awiya the
Umayyad Caliph. Mo’awiya requested Za’id to narrate a Hadith for him
from God’s Prophet, and ordered someone to inscribe it, Za’id then
responded ‘God’s messenger ordered us not to inscribe any of his
sayings’, so Mo’awiya erased what was written.
Other Sunni scholars such as Malik (Died 179 Hijri) in his book
(Al-Muwat’a) narrated only 1008 Hadiths, all of which were not
referenced back to P.Muhamed, but rather to P.Muhamed’s companions and
their followers. But as mentioned above, after only 100 years the number
of narrated Hadith dramatically exploded to 700,000 that were the
result of human imagination. This human imagination or Hadith factories
spread from Medina to Persia to Egypt to North Africa to Andalusia
(Spain)!!!
In the book ‘Sunan Abi-Dawood’ authored by ‘Suleiman bin Al-Ash’ath
Al-Sajistani’, who decided to selectively choose 4800 Hadith from a
total of 500,000.
As for Ahmed bin Hanbal, the founder of the Hanbali Sunni school, who selected from 700,000 and memorized 50,0000.
All of these numbers, although one might think they might be
exaggerated still indicate the creativity of Hadith factories, to the
extent they had reached to thousands and thousands of Hadiths that
Sa’yooti (Died 911 Hijri) had to filter and choose from. During
Sa’yooti’s time, the market of Hadith and Hadith creation was ripe, in
order to respond to the high demand within the Sunni & Shia earth
religions, that gradually gave birth to a sub-earth religion called
‘Sufism’ !!!
And as Muslims drift away from the Quran, Satan and his supporters keep laughing.
‘He said: "My Lord, for that which I have been misled by, I will
surely make straying from the right path appear beautiful to them on the
earth and I will surely lead them all astray.”’ (Quran 15:39)
