3.
From the People for the People: Hadith: Proverbs and
Deeds of the [Fantasy] Prophet
"Nobody who
seriously practices Islam studies would dare
to use the sayings attributed to Muhammad
and his companions as a source to formulate
a picture of the early state and teachings
of Islam."
Ignaz Goldziher, old master of Quran
research at the 1st International Congress
of Religious History, Paris 1900 |
3.1. Poetry sayings and the poets
[The alleged sayings of Fantasy "Muhammad"]
Along with the Quran, the "hadith" (emphasis on the
second syllable, -th is spoken as an s) [[the Fantasy
prophet's Fantasy sayings]] are the major religious
scriptures in Islam. Hadiths are sayings and actions
of the [[Fantasy]] Prophet: what he said to this or
that matter, what judgment he spoke on this or that
case, who his favorite wife was, what his favorite
food was, and whom he visited in heaven and
encountered in hell. There is hardly a conceivable or
unthinkable event in [[Fantasy]] Muhammad's life that
is not described in detail. The statements are largely
reproduced in direct speech. The biography of the
Prophet ("Sira") in its thousands of variants and all
the details is based on the hadiths.
[Sunni and Shiite poetry sayings on "Muhammad" and
the poets - sayings of before 5 to 6 generation -
example of the pumpkin]
The number of hadiths exceeds the million mark. Six
collections are canonized, officially recognized by
the Sunni clergy as authentic and true. (But not by
the Shiites, who in turn present five collections of
their own). The authors of these six official
collections are
-- al-Buhari (died 870),
-- Muslim (died 875),
-- Ibn Madscha (died 886),
-- Abu Dawood (died 888),
-- Tirmidhi (died 892), and
-- Nasa'i (died 915).
The earliest, occasionally cited collection of
biographical data by Ibn Ishak (died around 770) is
not proven, the collection of Ibn Hisham (died 834) is
not canonized which seems to be strange.
As a reminder: The [[Fantasy]] Prophet died
[[officially]] in 632. This means that the hadiths
were written 150 to 250 years after his death, some
much later yet. Until then, they were passed on orally
[p.53], mainly by "quassas", these are professional
storytellers. The stories of the [[Fantasy]] prophet
Muhammad's words and deeds literally went from
tea-fire to tea-fire, from market to market, from
generation to generation, until they landed at one of
the scribes.
Let's look at some hadiths. They come from the
official Buhari collection and are numbered according
to the Reclam edition. Only the original informant is
mentioned. In reality, one has to think of the entire
"tradition chain" over five or six generations. This
would look like this:
"In this way person A was telling me, and he told me
that person B had mentioned that person C had said to
him that person D had mentioned that he had heard from
person E that person F said that person G had asked
Aisha (one of the [[Fantasy]] wives of [[Fantasy]]
Muhammad): 'What did the [[Fantasy]] prophet of the
[[Fantasy]] Lord like to eat?' Whereupon Aisha would
have said: 'Truly, I say to you, he liked candied
fruit and honey, and he especially liked pumpkin.'"
3.2. Muslim poetry: prayer, heaven,
hell, dates, women's discrimination, killing Jews,
sexuality, "evil eye", tattooing, garlic
[Invented sayings of a Fantasy "Muhammad": prayer,
heaven and hell]
II, 11 [Muhammad above all describes thankless
ungrateful women in hell]
Ibn Abbas reports:
<The Prophet told: "Hell was shown to me, and most
of its inhabitants were women." Someone asked him,
"Did you not believe in God?" "They were ungrateful to
their companions, ungrateful for the benefits they had
received. If you only do goodness to such a woman, but
she discovers something that disgusts her, she says: I
have never seen anything good of you.">
II, 17
[People converting to Islam gets a many
fold back of his good deeds]
Abu Hurayrah reports that the Messenger of [[the
Fantasy]] God had said to him: "He who sincerely
confesses to Islam, his good good deeds will be
credited ten to seven hundredfold, while a bad deed
will be noted only once." [p.54]
III, 19
[The memory in the mantle]
Abu Huraira reports:
<I said, "O Messenger of [[Fantasy]] God, I hear
from you so many hadiths, but often I forget them
again." The [[Fantasy]] Prophet answered, "Spread out
your cloak." I followed this request. After that, the
[[Fantasy]] Prophet moved his hands, so he scooped
something into my coat. Then he said: "Now put it on
again." I did what he said and since then I have not
forgotten anything!>
IV, 2
[Do the little washing before praying]
Hammam ibn Munabbih reports:
Abu Hurayrah said: The Messenger of [[Fantasy]] God
said: "The prayer of a person which is unclean will
not be accepted until he does the little washing." A
man from Hadramaut asked him, "Oh Abu Huraira, what
makes you impure?" "For example, by flatulence.">
[[Flatulence is healing with caraway in foods. In
addition, one should not eat toxic wholemeal bread
(pesticides, chemtrails, additives) and toxic
chocolate (lead, cadmium, child labor)]].
IV, 5
[Visiting the toilet]
Anas reports:
<When the [[Fantasy]] Prophet went away to the
toilet, he said, "Oh God, I take refuge in you from
the evil and unclean powers.">
IV, 6
[During visiting the toilet the persons must
not look to Mecca]
Abu Aiyub al-Ansari reports that the Messenger of
[[the Fantasy]] God had said: "When you are on the
toilet, your face or back must not be turned towards
the Kaaba, but turn to the west or to the east."
IV, 24
[Do not use ponds and lakes as urinals]
Abu Huraira reports:
<The Messenger of [[the Fantasy]] God said: "Do not
urinate into calm waters, because later you may need
this water to wash you."> [p.55]
V, 3
["Muhammad" with the power of 30 men]
Qatada reports:
<Anas ibn Malik said: "In the course of one night
and one day, the Prophet came to all his wives, and he
had eleven!" I asked him: "Did he have so much
strength?" "Yes, he had the power of 30 men.">
V, 10
[Washings for man after sex without
ejaculation]
Ubai ibn Kab reports:
<I asked the [[Fantasy]] Prophet: "O Messenger of
[[the Fantasy]] God, how shall a man wash himself
after attending his wife, but had no ejaculation?" He
replied, "He should wash those parts of the body he
touched the woman with. Then make the little
washing.And then he can do the prayer.">
VII, 1
[Fantasy "Muhammad" shall be welcome to
Fantasy Enoch, Fantasy Jesus and Fantasy Abraham]
Anas reports:
<The [[Fantasy]] prophet told that he had met
Enoch, Moses, Jesus and Abraham in the heavens - God's
blessings may be count for them - but then he did not
indicate anything more about the conditions of their
dwellings. However, he pointed out that he saw
[[Fantasy]] Adam in the first, Abraham in the sixth
heaven. When [[Fantasy]] Gabriel and the [[Fantasy]]
Prophet passed Enoch, he said: "Welcome, o righteous
[[Fantasy]] Prophet and devout brother of
faith!" Then I met [[Fantasy]] Jesus. He also said:
"Welcome, o righteous [[Fantasy]] Prophet and devout
brother of faith!" Finally, I met [[Fantasy]] Abraham.
He said, "Welcome, o righteous [[Fantasy]] Prophet and
devout brother of faith!">
X, 14
["Muhammad" is said to have said that common
prayer counts 27 times more as praying alone]
Abdullah ibn Umar reports that the [[Fantasy]]
Messenger of [[the Fantasy]] God had said:
"The common prayer has twenty-seven times the value of
a prayer done alone." [p.56]
XI, 4
["Muhammad" is said to have said that during
a Friday prayer all faults would be forgiven]
Salman al-Farsi reports that the [[Fantasy]] Prophet
said:
"Anyone who takes a bath on Friday and thoroughly
washes, oiled or perfumed his hair, then goes to
prayer and does not press between the prayers who have
already taken their seats before him, then doing the
prayer according to the rules and listening the sermon
attentively, this man will be forgiven his mistakes
being committed between this day and the Friday of
before."
XV, 1
["Muhammad" is supposed having said that all
who believe in Muhammad come to paradise, including
thieves and adulterers]
Abu Darr reports:
<The [[Fantasy]] Prophet said, "The good news came
from my Lord that all the members of my community who
serve [[a Fantasy]] God alone, and do not attribute to
Him any partner in His Divinity, will go to Paradise
after their death." I asked him, "Does this also apply
to those who have committed adultery or have stolen?"
- "Yes!">
XV, 13
["Muhammad" is supposed to have said that
there are Jews, Christians and magicians]
Abu Huraira reports:
<The Messenger of [[the Fantasy]] God said: "Every
newborn as the natural predisposition for the right
belief. The parents are the factor educating it to be
a Jew, Christian or magician.">
[And all other religions do not exist for the fantasy
Mohammed? But there is a lack of further training!]
[Fantasy sayings of a Fantasy "Muhammad": about
dates]
XX, 15
[Nafi is said having said that fertilized
date palms would belong to the fertilizer]
Nafi, the Maular of Ibn Umar, reports:
"If date palms are sold that are already fertilized,
and when there is no further arrangements, the harvest
belongs to the person who has fertilized the palms."
XXIV, 3
[Eating dates must be slowly]
Ibn Umar reports:
"The [[Fantasy]] Prophet forbade eating two dates at a
meal together before asking for permission from
others." [p.57]
[Invented sayings of a Fantasy "Muhammad": women's
discrimination, killing of Jews, sexuality, "evil
eye", tattoos, garlic]
XXVI, 7
[The testimony of a woman is only worth
half]
Abu Sail al-Khudri reports:
<The [[Fantasy]] Prophet said to the women: "Is it
not true that the testimony of a woman count only half
of a man's testimony?" They replied, "Yes, O Messenger
of God!" - "The reason for this is your poor common
sense!">
[[This is very bad: because in many Islamic countries
women remain without school which is the precondition
for intelligence. So first there is discrimination
without school and then there is discrimination in the
justice system by 50%. Principally this is like this
because in Islam women are with the children and
should be saved from "hard topics" of life]].
XXVIII, 18
[Fantasy "Muhammad" is said to have
given the instruction how to kill Jews - and a
speaking stone]
Abdullah ibn Umar reports that the [[Fantasy]]
Messenger of [[Fantasy]] God had said:
<I will fight the Jews until one of them seeks
refuge behind a stone. And this stone will shout:
"Come here, this Jew did hide himself behind me! Kill
him!">
XXIX, 5
[Fantasy "Muhammad" is said having granted
temporary marriage for sexual satisfaction]
Abdullah reports:
<We were on a military campaign and we did not have
any women with us. So we said to the [[Fantasy]]
Prophet: "Is not it better to have castrated?" He
forbade us to do so, but he allowed women to marry for
a limited time.>
XXIX, 7
[Fantasy "Muhammad" is said having allowed
sex only in the dark, but women are liked to be
combed and shaved]
Gabir ibn Abdullah reports:
<As we approached our destination, the [[Fantasy]]
Prophet said: "Take your time and ride slowly, so that
you arrive at nightfall in Medina, because the women
should find time to comb and shave their pubic hair!"
>
XXXIV, 15
[Fantasy "Muhammad" is said having
granted the "evil eye", but not tattooing]
Abu Huraira reports:
<The [[Fantasy]] Prophet said: "The evil eye is
reality!" And he forbade tattooing>
XXXI, 14
[Fantasy "Mohammad" is said having
forbidden garlic before going to the mosque]
Abdul Aziz reports:
Someone asked Anas: "Did the [[Fantasy]] Prophet say
anything about garlic?" Yes, he said: "Those who have
eaten garlic should not approach our mosque!">
[[Garlic is a wonderful natural medicine in winter and
in the mountains]].
[p.58]
3.3. The dating and classification of
poetry: "they appear authentic"
So, these hadiths were put down about 200 years later
and even more later after the affirmed events, and
there are hundreds of thousands of them. It is clear
to everyone, of course, that the authenticity of
citations that have been transmitted orally over the
centuries, and that happened on a huge scale, has to
be observed with greatest skepticism.
[The hadith industry in the 9th and 10th century -
poet al-Audsha]
In the 9th and 10th century, there was a true hadith
industry. Hadiths were issued against orders and
against payments, rulers let edit them for their
justification of power. A certain al-Audsha admitted
that he freely invented 4,000 hadiths [25].
[25] McDonald: Development of Muslim
Theology; Jurisprudence and Constitutional Theory;
New York 1903
He was executed for this, but the real problem was not
eliminated.
[The authors Abu Dawud and Al-Buhari classify
sayings which seem to be authentic - and the
informer must have Islamic faith and must be
"without faults"]
Abu Dawud, author of one of the official collections,
stated that he had accepted only 4,800 of 500,000
hadiths "that appear authentic, or almost". Al-Buhari,
the most prominent hadith editor, classified "only
7400" of 600,000 stories as authentic. Now, the
careful estimation are 1.5 million hadiths as a raw
material for the official editors. And 100.000s
individual reviews of the transmitters would be
needed, and in the best case they would have an age of
"only" 150 years...
The recognition of a hadith as "real" has it's
conditions. The informer must
-- be trustworthy and have a good reputation;
-- be faultless in faith and religious behavior;
-- to provide the safety that they have understood the
information correctly;
-- have handed down more than one hadith.
The traditional text must
-- be state for sure that the reported content comes
from Muhammad personally;
-- prove a complete chain of informants;
-- to fit into the time of Muhammad. [p.59].
[The chain of narrators ("Isnad") as a criterion
for a true Fantasy Muhammad saying (Hadith)]
The quality of a hadith is always decided by the
Isnad, that is the chain of the narrators. If the
Isnad is in order, it is also the Hadith itself,
however contentwise or logically it may be very
questionable. A solid proven lineage provokes an
approval of a solid ("healthy") hadith. Criticism of a
Hadith is therefore never criticism of the content,
because the basic assumption always comes from the
[[Fantasy]] Prophet himself, but it is only criticism
of Isnad and its transmitters (narrators). Hadith
suppliers were beside the [[Fantasy]] Prophet his
"comrades" and their "successors", altogether these
were a few thousand persons. Their statements about
the [[Fantasy]] Prophet are more or less a certificate
of authenticity with a guarantee of origin.
For a long time there was no review of the hadiths,
each one was "real." Only when the hadith binge (bad
behavior) was dominating criteria were established,
but the dams were already broken.
[[So everyone could give a saying in the name of the
fantasy prophet Muhammad]].
Hadiths have almost the same worth for Muslims as
Quran verses, because God speaks in them through the
Prophet. They are passed down by the popular language
and thus everybody can understand them, and the big
awesome distance is missing because this exists
respect to the Quran. The editor of the Buhari Hadith
Collection (Reclam) writes in his introduction:
"Non-Muslim readers will learn a great deal when
reading what may seem strange and strange to them.
They are approaching the privacy of a foreign
culture."
This is true, they are approaching the privacy, but
they are not at all approaching the facts.
3.4. Poetic sayings in the Muslim
media
[Muslim media discussing life situations and
spreading sayings (hadith)]
Hadiths reflect mostly daily life situation. But they
are all the more important for the believer, because
he finds therefrom instructions for the situation
where an answer is wanted for. In every Islamic
country there are newspaper sectors, radio and
television broadcasts, where the audience can ask
questions about specific life situations and the
author or presenter provides the appropriate hadith.
However, today's questions have only yesterday's
answers - the basic problem of Islamic thought [p.60].
3.5. Poetic sayings as the basis of
the brutal sharia
[The Fantasy hadith poetry is the basis of the
brutal sharia]
[[Fantasy]] Hadiths are the main basis of Shari'a,
Islamic jurisprudence, because in the Quran itself
only a maximum of 500 passages are legally relevant
and the numerous, contradictory Quranic verses only
make big problems in practice. Thus, the Koran itself
is not sufficient for a legal basis, so for justice
not only deeds and sayings of the [[Fantasy]] Prophet
are cited, but also the ones of his friends or his
successors are rated. Countless heads rolled and
countless hands fell in the sand, cut off on the basis
of hadiths.
The apostasy from Islam is punished with the death
penalty. This is due to a single [[Fantasy]] Hadith:
"Kill him who changes his religion." There is no
corresponding passage in the Quran itself. A single
"saying" having emerged from somewhere can decide
about life and death.
[Quran scholars in "Islamic science" were sorting
the hadiths without scientific criteria "]
Also [[Fantasy]] Quran scholars are aware of the
problem of the hadiths. At all times there was work
for a cleanup. Currently there is the "Islamic
science" ilm al-ridschal which is dealing with the
narrators of the hadiths. Its task is to check "the
living conditions and the scientific qualification" of
the narrators of that time. That means that false
hadiths are sorted out and the right ones are kept.
But, which are the scientific criteria for this
election? Again, one has to ask oneself what "science"
should mean in the Islamic context. At any rate, it
does not seem to have much to do with a generally
accepted definition of science.
Let's remember: We are speaking of the necessity of
testing 100.000s of parts of a chain of persons
concerning life data and character characteristics
which are said to have transmitted about 1,400 years
ago much information as quotes in a personal speech
without written proofs over 5 to six generations
without mistaking anything. Persons can call this a
wonder, and I omit the term of science.
[The comparison with rumors about Napoleon -
Fantasy Hadiths are classified according to the
feeling principle]
The historical correctness of hadiths is as precise as
if we would describe life and actions of Napoleon with
all his speeches inclusive only on the base of
narrations which were given [p.61] to us over
generations ("My great-uncle said to me, his father
had told him that the grandfather of a friend whose
grandfather knew someone whose uncle served with
Napoleon, had learned that the following said: ... ").
What historical reliability would that have?
But that's how [[Fantasy]] Hadiths are working. And
such a "chain", then as now, should be seriously
verifiable? We do not know anything about the truth of
the communication itself, because the content of a
hadith is not called into question.
Principally, everything that was right according to
the feeling of the naive believer became a a saying of
the [[Fantasy]] Prophet - a hadith.
3.6. The biography (Sira) of the
"Muhammad" with invented poetry (hadith)
[The biography ("Sira") are all invented hadiths by
feeling and hearsay]
It is not just about individual passages, but about
the entire construct of the life and work of the
[[Fantasy]] Prophet, because the "Sira", the biography
of the [[Fantasy]] Prophet, is nothing more than
biographically [[Fantasy]] Hadith material being put
together.
Here, the Islam-immanent basic problem of the sources
becomes clear: histories from hearsay are presented as
facts. Source research does not exist.
[CIA-Wikipedia claims the feeling for Hadiths would
be "authentic" because of the narrators]
CIA Wikipedia says: "However, the Sira literature
differs from the hadith literature because Sira
literature is normally not backed by a chain of
narrators." [[Wikipedia: Sira:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As-S%C4%ABra_an-Nabaw%C4%ABya
- as of 30.8.2015]].
Should the "chain of narrators" be a seal of approval?
If one regards the "chain of narrators" as "secured",
then what else is "not secured"? Comes a fairy tale
passing the door and is leaving the room as a secured
fact?
[CIA Wikipedia claims that the invented Sira
hadiths would be in it's core "largely authentic"]
And: "According to the current state of research, the
Sira in it's core is a mostly authentic historical
source; except only some passages." [[CIA Wikipedia:
Sira:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As-S%C4%ABra_an-Nabaw%C4%ABya
- as of 30.8.2015]].
Just the opposite is the case. The scientists may ring
the bell who see an "authentic and historic source"
with these [[Fantasy]] hadiths and their derivates.
Because the sources are completely obscure and
unverifiable, the hadith can be confidently called a
collection of fairy tales [p.62].
3.7. The struggle with the invented
[[Fantasy]] hadiths from region to region
[Different regions invent different Fantasy hadiths
to fight other Islamic regions]
There is no criteria fulfilling the conditions for
being a usable historic source - with one exception:
[[Fantasy]] Hadiths are a prime illustration how
[[Fantasy]] Islam was created. The different
directions that came out within this developing
religion, the positional struggles, the dynastic
conflicts, the theological formations, they all can be
found in the [[Fantasy]] hadiths. And the [[Fantasy]]
hadiths also represent very clearly the different
regions and schools - Damascus, Basra, Kufa, Medina,
Persian theologians against Arabs - because for every
occasion the adequate Hadith was at hand to strengthen
the own position and weakening the opposite position.
[Elements of other religions are included in the
Fantasy hadiths: example the prayer "Our Father"]
The influences of the neighboring religions also
manifest themselves in the Quran as in the [[Fantasy]]
hadiths. In borrowing from the gospel of Matthew 5:3
("blessed shall be the poor in spirit"), the prophets
are told in a totally un-Islamic way that most of the
inhabitants of paradise would be the simpletons
(whereas nerving wives would form the majority in
[[Fantasy]] hell). In the canonical collection of the
Abu Dawud, the narrator Abu-l-Darda testified that he
had heard [[Fantasy]] Muhammad saying the following
prayer: "Our [[Fantasy]] God in heaven, hallowed be
your name, your will be done in [[Fantasy]] heaven and
on earth, as your mercy in [[Fantasy]] heaven be it on
earth, forgive us our guilt and our sins ... "
3.8. Invented hadiths in Islamic
justice
[The Islamic justice looks for Fantasy hadiths -
and when there is none, one asks oneself: what would
the Prophet have said?]
For justice the [[Fantasy]] hadiths had deep and
strict consequences. The early schools of Abu Hanifa
and Malik bin Anas did not handle [[Fantasy]] hadiths
- that is, Muhammad did not exist at all - but later
schools essentially relied only on [[Fantasy]]
hadiths. It was no longer about creating legal
principles, but only about the comparison. What did
the [[Fantasy]] Prophet say about that? What has he
done? If there was no adequate answer, they searched
for the "comrades" and their "successors". And if that
did not succeed, the question arose: what would the
[[Fantasy]] Prophet say?
[Hadith counterfeiter Hanafis]
Time came when without [[Fantasy]] hadiths nothing
could be done any more. Thus the basically really
rational Hanafis were doing some work producing more
hadiths being the most eager hadith producers and
fakers. This was the time when [[Fantasy]] hadiths
were arranging the life of the believers and of their
society [p.63].
3.9. The "tradition" (Sunna) regulates
Muslim life with poetic sayings (hadiths) and
prophetic life (sira)
The general term of [[Fantasy]] hadiths and sira is
the sunna, the "tradition". The totality of all the
traditions of the Prophet is Sunna, the hadith being
of the greatest importance. Sunna is what the Prophet
said, what he did, and what was said about him.
According to the Prophet's tradition, the Sunna
regulated the manner of greeting and what a sneezing
person was to be wished, as well as the number of
women, the beard, the length of the dress or the ban
on eating.
[The Sunna controls the Quran]
Sunna is the form of government and justice and,
ultimately, the most important normative principle of
all private and public life. As early as the third
Islamic century, Quran and Sunna were equally one
aside the other; there was the saying "The Sunna is
the judge of the Quran and not the other way around".
The leading jurists al-Scheibani and al-Shafi affirm
this point of view, while Ibn Kuteiba at the same time
established the thesis of the divinity of the Sunna.
[The Salafists want to live strictly according to
the Sunna and the hadiths]
Salafi, the "imitator of tradition" - the tradition of
Muhammad - was the greatest title of glory for a
believer in the 9th century. These "imitators of
tradition" forming the group of "Salafists" are still
in the 21st century, a significant stream of Islam.
[The "tradition" ("Sunna ") develops from simple
life into complicated forms of life]
Of course, where the highest virtue was only imitation
and comparing things, no theology could develop. And
even more: the original Islamic topics turned into the
opposite. While the earliest Islam was rooted in the
eagerness for clear and simple life rejecting the
Greek Christianity with it's luxury, wounds and holy
statues, so in the third Islamic century came
precisely this characteristic also to the new
religion. Contradicting Quran and Arabic Sunna a prime
figure was created without mistake and error, a
perfect human fulfilling wonders and provoking soon
thousands of legends: Muhammad.
