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Originally Posted by Allahs_slave  Asslamo alaykom
can anyone tell me how bukhari and muslim used to work when they collected the hadiths? why do we consider both sahihs accurate and reliable? i heard they are the second most accurate sources after the holy qoran... but allah protected qoran from any change ... but did not say he'd protect hadiths of the prophet ... wouldn't it be wiser for us to compare this huge number of hadiths with qoran before we follow what they say? don't you think most of these hadiths described what muslims were asked to do AT THE PROPHETS TIME and not now, ....
one more thing... in what time did bukhari and muslim live ?
thanx in advance 
salam
ahmad |
my first advise, do not evn contemplate in trying to understand the religion that was sent to Muhamamd from a shi'ee or any of the shia.
Secondly
the verse about Allah saying 'And surely We will protect it" has the meaning of the entire revelation, meaning The quraan and the sunnah of the prophet (which is collected in the ahadeeth). That is why there are narrations were the prophet said, I have been given the quraan and something similar to it" (meaning the divine inspriation that is part of the revelation of Allah that He gave to His prophet in the form of his sunnah.
That is why the prophet said with words like "Allah sent me the quraan and I have been sent to explain it" and its explaination is the sunnah which is collected throguh the works of hadeeth.
So even though Allah protected the quraan explicitly at face value, He also protected the preservation of His sunnah trough the aids of the inheritors of the prophets (who are the aimah of this ummah the ulema ar-Rabani'oon) Bukharee being one of them.To my knowledge o the 7200 hadeths in Bukahree I only heard of a few ulema who have said that the weak ahadeeth are low in number, and one muhadith said there were only 2 hadeeths that were weak in the entire collection of his.
and yes, the scholars who did bring forth their hadeeth have thoroughly studied the narrations to see if it was fit with the quraan before they gave their ruling of its authenticitiy. Maybe you should auaint yourself with teh cience involved in hadeeth because of of the principles laid out is that if a particular narration defies any text of the quraan, then such a hadeeth is dispariaged.
So I would like to expound a littel in this aspect and say that if we muslims csee a hadeeth that our minds beleive to be a contradiction in the quraan that comes form the sihah or has been known to be saheeh, then our job is to make the intellects subserviant to the texts, and not the opposite. We must hold that our understading is deficient of the texts for we see contradiction in something when there really isnt. And sicne the thousands of muich more knowledgeable people have not viewed a partuicular narration to be in contradiction in the quraan, then it is highly unlikely that the reality of contradiction somehow missed their minds (who are much greater than us in knowledge) and somehow we have been exposed to such descrepency.
asalamu alaikum