Are Ahadith As Authentic As Quran?
Thanks for the quick reply, Faisal. If we use hadith to better understand Quran, and one of the criteria is to verify hadith with Quran, then it seems a paradoxical situation/infinite loop. I appreciate your time. Just want to make it clear Alhamdulliah, I consider myself a practising Muslim and don’t have any hidden agenda to undermine hadith. Just want to get a satisfactory understanding of how we should look at records of hadith. In a nutshell, I have no doubt we are duty bound to follow the directions of Prophet (pbuh). Where I have questions/lack of understanding is around the risk of difference between the actual sayings of Prophet (pbuh) and the “records” (Bukhari, Muslim) of those sayings which were complied hundred years afterwards and passed through multiple narrators. In light of modern knowledge and experimental evidence (Chinese whisper) we know that message gets compromised even if these is no ill intention involved. Even Ghamdi sahab alludes to this risk, when the hadith about hazrat Aisha age is concerned. Kind regards.