:bism: (In the Name of God, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful)
(Peace be upon you)
The
hadiths are prophetic traditions or sayings of Prophet Muhammad :saws:
(peace and blessings be upon him). The Quran in itself can be said to be a big
hadith because all of the Quran was memorized as Revelation by the Companions (may God be pleased with them) and they also memorized what Prophet Muhammad :saws:
(peace and blessings be upon him) said and did so that future generations like us from human beings could know how to live out the Quran in the best way.
For example, what if I told you to make chocolate cake the essential ingredient is cocoa powder. You'd know that chocolate cake contains cocoa powder and maybe can guess what other other ingredients we might need as well. But you wouldn't ever be sure. However, if I invited you to observe me making chocolate cake and invited you to do the same as I'm saying to you, you'd better be able to follow along as I gave you specific instructions and showed you how, talking to you about how to preheat the oven, use eggs, 2 cups sugar, and so on and so forth. In that way, you'd have learned easily how to make a chocolate cake.
In the same way, for example, Quran says, "
Then And then being among those who believed and advised one another to patience and advised one another to compassion. They are those on the Right Hand (i.e. the dwellers of Paradise)."
However, the question becomes how do we show, for example, that compassion that Quran asks us?
That we will know from Prophet Muhammad :saws: when he gives us advice about what God wants in terms of specific intentions and actions.
We know from
hadiths that Prophet Muhammad :saws:
(peace and blessings be upon him) said the following:
"
No one believes truly until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself."
"
Whoever wishes to be delivered from the fire and to enter paradise should treat other people as they wish to be treated themselves."
"
O Muslim women, disdain not doing a kindness to a neighbor, even if it were sending her a lamb’s leg."
So, now you learn three things about how to show compassion, and they're all from
hadiths; the three things that you have learned about compassion are that in your heart you must want the best for other people, that must treat other people as they wish to be treated, and that you should share whatever little you have with your neighbors.
Now, as to why we trust the
hadiths, the reason is because Prophet Muhammad :saws:
(peace and blessings be upon him) is the source of
hadiths and the
hadiths have been transmitted by some specific Companions
(may God be pleased with them) whom Prophet Muhammad :saws:
(peace and blessings be upon him) trusted. And because the Quran (3:31) says, "
Say, [O Muhammad], "If you should love Allah , then follow me, [so] Allah will love you and forgive you your sins. And Allah is Forgiving and Merciful." So, we know that Allah is telling us in the Quran that we should follow
hadiths because that is where we'll know how to exactly follow and emulate Prophet Muhammad :saws:
(peace and blessings be upon him) because that is where he advised us. And as you said yourself, you trust the Quran.
:wa: (And peace be upon you)
What do they base the hadiths being true on? Bc the Quran has the #19 to bind it together, plus math plus science etc. I don't understand how people can trust the hadiths like they do the Quran. (I felt that prayer is harmless and also is good etc). But how do u have faith in the hadiths??
