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Light on the Muhammadan Sunnah or Defence of the Hadith

Author: Shaykh Mahmud Abu Rayyah
Translator: Hasan Muhammad Al-Najafi
Publisher: Ansariyan Publications – Qum
Category:

• Publisher’s Foreword
• Dedication
• Note
• Dr. Taha Husayn’s Foreword
• Adwa’ ‘ala al-Sunnah al-Muhammadiyyah
• The Author’s Response
• Notes
• Introduction
• Definition of the Book
• Motives behind Compilation of this Book
• Narrating Hadith through Denotation
• Hadith of That Who Lied Against Me
• The Compositions
• Abu Hurayrah
• Collecting and Inscribing the Qur’an
• Inscribing the Hadith
• Origin of Science of Hadith
• Scholars’ Stance toward Hadith
• A General Word
• Notes
• Introduction of the Second Edition
• For Truth and History
• An Indispensable Explanation
• Notes
• Introduction to the Third Edition
• Al-Sunnah
• Position of Sunnah in Religion
• Influence of Messenger’s Speech on Worldly Affairs
• Obligation Not Necessitated by Messenger’s Order Merely
• Forbiddance from Writing the Hadith
• Companions and Hadith Relating
• Companions’ Strictness in Admitting the Reports
• To Lie against Messenger of Allah
• Decisive Correct Evidences on Reality of the Hadith Who Lied Against Me
• Fabricating a Lie against the Prophet during His Lifetime
• Fabricating Lies Against The Prophet After His Death
• Sentence of That Who Lied Against the Prophet
• To Lie Against the Prophet is a Major Sin
• Degrees of the Companions
• Divergence among Companions in Narrating Truthfully
• Companions’ Reporting From Each Other and From the Followers
• Reporting from Malik and Yahya al-Ansari
• The Companions Criticizing Each Other
• Narration of Hadith after Its Writing Was Forbidden By Prophet
• Narrating Hadith by Meaning and Disagreement among Scholar
• Forms Of Tashahhud
• Word of Monotheism
• Listening To Hadith Not to Songs
• Notes
• Examples On Narrating Hadith By Meaning Hadith Of Islam And Faith
• Hadith of I Married Her to You with What you Have
• Hadith of Performing Prayers in Banu Qurayzah
• An example for this can be seen in al-Nawawi’s saying in the hadith
• Hadith on Pollinating the Date Palms
• Hadith of Ali’s Sahifah
• Notes
• Disadvantage Of Narrating Hadith Through Meaning
• First Defect
• Second Defect
• Third Defect
• Fourth Defect
• Fifth Defect
• Sixth Defect
• Seventh Defect
• Eighth Defect
• I Am Delegated With the Universal Speech
• Notes
• Detriment of Narration Through Meaning Linguistically and Rhetorically
• Solecism and Mistake in Hadith
• Advancing, Putting Off, Addition and Omission in Hadith
• To Narrate Part of Hadith and Shortening It
• Their Leniency toward Narrations on Virtues and Their Detriment
• Narration in Islam
• Stage of Committing Hadith to Writing
• A Critical Defect of Narration How Were Their Narrations
• Notes
• Causes
• Beginning of Invention in Riwayah and Falsifying the Messenger’s Hadith
• The Fabricated Hadith
• Detriment of Tales and Talebearer
• Mu’awiyah Was Fabricator of Tales
• Political Fabrication Or For Sake Of Politics
• Mu’awiyah and Sham
• Origin of Substitutes Village
• The Abbasid State
• Censuring the Turks
• How Fabrication of Hadith Was Permitted
• The Righteous Fabricators
• A Witty Saying
• Fabrication through Inclusion
• Can The Fabricated Hadith Be Recognized
• Whole Heart Has Full Knowledge Of The Fabricated Hadith
• Liars and Their Slanders against the Prophet
• Traditions Fabricated By the Jews
• Ka’b Al-Ahbar
• Reason behind his embracing Islam
• Wahb Ibn Munabbih
• Abd Allah Ibn Sallam
• How Did They Seize Muslims’ Minds
• Ka’b And Umar
• Murder of Umar and Ka’b’s Hand in It
• Hadith of Istisqa’
• Ka’b’s Cunning and Stratagem
• Jewish Traditions Spread By Ka’b and Wahb
• Is It Permissible To Narrate Israeliyyat?
• Some Companions Relating From Jewish Rabbis
• Companions Disproving Ka’b
• Story of the Rock between Umar And Ka’b
• Jewish Traditions on Excellence of Bayt Al-Maqdis
• Traditions on Al-Masjid Al-Aqsa
• Jewish Role in Preferring the Sham
• Investigators' Opinion about Israeliyyat and Their Narrators
• Political Stratagem
• Abd Allah Ibn Saba
• Ka'b and Mu'awiyah
• Notes
• Masihiyyat In Hadith
• Hadith of Jassasah
• Hadith of Satan's Defaming All Sons of Adam except Jesus and Maryam
• Ibn Jarih
• Jesus Christ and His Descension
• Place of His Descension
• Length of His Term
• The Suspicions Raised By Them
• Abundance of Related Traditions
• Notes
• Abu Hurayrah
• Disagreement about His Name
• His Growth and Origin
• His Coming to Medina and Going to Khaybar
• Reason of His Companionship to the Prophet
• Shaykh Al-Mudirah
• Hadith: Visit at Intervals You Increase In Love
• His Jesting And Nonsense
• Scorning Him
• Multiplicity Of His Traditions
• His Justification for Narrating Abundantly
• His Imposture (Tadlis)
• First Narrator Accused in Islam
• His Reporting From Ka'b Al-Ahbar
• Memorizing the Two Receptacles
• Abu Hurayrah Follows the Umayyads
• Fabrication of Traditions against Ali
• His Conduct during His Rule
• His Death
• A General Word In His Regard
• Samples of Abu Hurayrah's Narrations
• Narrations of Great Companions
• Traditions Reported By Abu Bakr
• Traditions Reported By Umar
• Traditions Reported By Ali
• Ambiguous Traditions
• Hadith on Dispute in Celestial City
• The Paradise Bull
• Prophet's Seeing God Eleven Times, And Isra' Was Reality
• An Angel Among Throne Bearers
• The Thunder
• The Black Stone
• Favour Of Basmalah
• One Of Throne Bearers
• Gabriel Has 600 Wings
• Our Lord Uncovering His Leg
• Sheep Being Among Paradise Mounts
• Foot Of The Almighty Allah
• A Tree In Paradise
• The Most Credible Hadith
• Touba, A Tree In Paradise
• Traditions On Al-Mahdi
• The Abbasid Al-Mahdi
• Al-Mahdi Al-Sufyani
• The Twelve Caliphs
• Opinions Of Some Scholars On These Traditions
• Notes
• Al-Dajjal (Impostor)
• Al-Dajjal in Farewell Sermon
• Age of The World
• A General Word on Traditions of Provisions of the Hour and Alike
• Incongruous Traditions
• Notes
• Tadwin Al-Qur'an
• Writing Of Qur'an during Lifetime of the Prophet
• Revelation Scribes
• Collection of Qur'an and Its Reason
• Seeking To Collect the Qur'an
• A Perplexing Oddity
• The Qur'an during Reign of Uthman
• Writing of the Qur'an during Reign of Uthman
• Difference between Collecting of Abu Bakr and that of Uthman
• Number of Masahif Sent By Uthman to Metropolises
• A Meditative Pause
• A Necessary Commentary
• The First Ambiguity
• The Second Ambiguity
• The Third Ambiguity
• Notes
• Tadwin Al-Hadith
• Writing of Hadith Was Forcibly Done
• Tadwin of Umayyads Was Not Considered Symmetrical
• Tadwin during the Abbasid Era
• Tadwin After 200 (Hijrah) Year
• Stages of Changeability of Tadwin
• Effect Of Delay In Tadwin
• The Shiah and Writing Of Hadith
• Origination Of Science Of Hadith
• The First Who Compiled Ilm Al-Hadith
• Purpose of ‘Ilm Al-Hadith
• Ascription and Text of Hadith
• From Whom Hadith Should Be Taken
• Parts of Khabar
• Rule of Mutawatir and Ahad
• Mutawatir Is Not Included In ‘Ilm Al-Isnad
• Ibn Al-Salah and His Opponents
• Hadith Including No Mutawatir
• Ahadith Al-Ahad
• The Correct Hadith
• The Good Hadith
• The Weak Hadith
• Multiplicity of Hadith Ways Never Reinforces Them
• Being Self-Decisive Is No Condition for Correct Hadith
• Best care was given to sanad
• A Necessary Meditation
• Some Kinds Of Hadith
• The Confused Hadith
• Traditionists Care Not For Errors and Criticism of Texts
• Defect-Finding in Hadith
• Misconstructed Kinds of Traditions
• Kinds of Muharraf Traditions
• The Reversed Hadith
• Notes
• Famous Hadith Books
• Malik and His Muwatta’
• Divergence Of His Narrations
• Cause And Time Of Its Compilation
• Criticism Of Ibn Mu’in To Malik
• Al-Bukhari And His Book
• Reason behind Compilation of Al-Bukhari’s Book
• Al-Bukhari Narrating Through Meaning
• Death Of Al-Bukhari Before Revising His Book
• Sahih Al-Bukhari Containing Many Dubieties
• Al-Bukhari’s Traditions And Their Deniers
• Al-Bukhari And People Of Sham
• Al-Bukhari and Infliction of Invention of the Qur’an
• Al-Bukhari’s Narrations Differ In Number
• Muslim and His Book
• Views Held About Al-Bukhari and Muslim
• Estrangement of Riwayah of Men of Opinion
• Amendment on Al-Bukhari and Muslim
• An Odd Maxim Narrated By Al-Bukhari and Muslim
• Who Considered Al-Bukhari And Muslim More Authentic?
• Abu Dawud
• Al-Tirmidhi
• Al-Nasa’i
• Al-Mustakhrajat
• Musnad Ahmad
• Musnad Books Other Than Al-Sihah Al-Sittah
• Comments on Musnad Ahmad
• Ahmad Reporting From An Apostate Companion
• Notes
• Jarh And Ta’dil
• Reasons of Jarh
• Disagreement Regarding Jarh and Ta’dil
• Jarh Precedes Ta’dil
• A General Word
• Notes
• Reliability of the Companions
• Who Is The Companion?
• A Research on Disagreement
• Adopting Reliability Of All The Sahabah
• Hypocrites Among Sahabah And Surat Al-Tawbah
• Preferring Trade and Pastime to Prayers
• Hypocrisy of Companions during and after Prophet’s Lifetime
• Attitude of Ulama’ Toward Akhbar Al-Ahad
• The Mutakallimun
• The Fuqaha’
• Sayings of Madhahib Imitators
• Opinion of Malik and his companions
• Al-Awza’i And Abu Hanifah
• Madhhab Being Altered Religion
• Points of Disagreement among Fuqaha’
• Grammarians and Linguists
• Opinion Of Al-Imam Muhammad Abduh
• Sorcery Hadith Is Of Ahad
• Opinion of Sayyid Rashid Ridha’
• Asking For Hadith Without Fiqh
• Notes
• Conclusion
• Verification of Akhbar By Recognizing Tempers Of People
• Research on Sciences of Hadith
• The Greatest Calamity Inflicted to Islam
• Believing In Message of Muhammad
• Can Anyone Authenticated By Earliers Be Deemed Thiqah?
• Criticism by Ulama’ of Fiqh Al-Hadith
• Most of Ahadith Al-Ahad Weren’t Abundant In First Age
• Can Traditions Be Counted A General Law?
• What Is Refuting Khabar Al-Wahid
• State of People during First Era and After It
• Fiqh during the Prophet’s Lifetime
• Aspects of Preponderance Contain Contradiction
• Rules and Principles
• Original Rules of Rituals and Transactions
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Journals and Newspapers