Hadith And The Sources Of Religion
@Saim : Please allow me to correct you when you said “that person would have to read the lives of prophet to know whether these biddat actually happened or not” ..No, that person will have to read the Qur’an to know whether something is biddat/shirk/sin or not. It’s like a Christian cannot keep validating verses of their (forged) Bible with Bible itself. We need to get out of the loop and start to validate everything with the Qur’an. As for Hadiths, as Dr. Irfan said, try to understand the difference between Sunnah and Hadiths.. I understand there’s a vast overlap, but that overlap doesn’t make Hadith the source. For example: Had there been zero hadiths compiled and passed down as books, (imagine no written hadith books), do you think we Muslims would have gone astray? No, we Muslims would still be practicing Islam based on the Sunnah, the living Sunnah passed down through generations uninterrupted. We Muslims would still be 100% obeying the Messenger by following his message (the Qur’an) and the method (the Sunnah). Hadiths are historical records, a work of humans, that a common man doesn’t need to dive into, at all. We need to learn to follow Islam how (for example) Tabiyeen and Taba’tabyeen did. They didn’t follow/rely on written hadiths, they followed Sunnah. Imam Malik even refused to follow authentic Hadiths which contradicted with the living Sunnah they were practicing in Madinah. Sunnah is what we must focus on. And Sunnah is not derived from Hadiths. JazakAllah khair.