Light On the Muhammadan Sunnah Or Defence of the Hadith

• Publisher’s Foreword
• Dedication
• Dr. Taha Husayn's Foreword
• The Author’s Response
• Definition of the Book
• Narrating Hadith Through Denotation:
• A General Word:
• Introduction of the Second Edition 13
• For Truth and History
• Introduction To the Third Edition
• Al-sunnah
• Position of Sunnah in Religion:
• Companions and Hadith Relating:
• To Lie Against Messenger of Allah:
• Fabricating Lies Against the Prophet After His Death:
• The Companions Criticizing Each Other:
• Narrating Hadith By Meaning and Disagreement Among Scholars:
• Forms of Tashahhud:
• Word of Monotheism:
• Examples On Narrating Hadith By Meaning Hadith of Islam and Faith:
• Hadith of Ali’s Sahifah:
• Disadvantage of Narrating Hadith Through Meaning
• Detriment of Narration Through Meaning Linguistically and Rhetorically
• Narration in Islam
• Composition of Hadith and Its Causes
• Detriment of Tales and Talebearer:
• The Abbasid State:
• The Righteous Fabricators
• Ka’b Al-ahbar: 245
• Wahb Ibn Munabbih:
• Abd Allah Ibn Sallam:
• Ka’b and Umar:
• Ka’b’s Cunning and Stratagem:
• Some Companions Relating From Jewish Rabbis:
• Political Stratagem
• Ka'b and Mu'awiyah:
• Masihiyyat in Hadith
• Abu Hurayrah
• Shaykh Al-mudirah:
• His Imposture (tadlis)
• First Narrator Accused in Islam:
• His Reporting From Ka'b Al-ahbar:
• Abu Hurayrah Follows the Umayyads:
• Fabrication of Traditions Against Ali
• Narrations of Great Companions
• Ambiguous Traditions
• The Twelve Caliphs:
• Al-dajjal (impostor) 447
• Tadwin Al-qur'an:
• Revelation Scribes:
• A Meditative Pause:
• Tadwin Al-hadith: 468
• Writing of Hadith Was Forcibly Done:
• Stages of Changeability of Tadwin:
• Effect of Delay in Tadwin:
• The Shiah and Writing of Hadith
• Parts of Khabar:
• Best Care Was Given To Sanad:
• Famous Hadith Books
• Malik and His Muwatta’:
• Al-bukhari and His Book
• Muslim and His Book
• Are Sahihayn Containing Most Correct Traditions?
• Abu Dawud
• Al-tirmidhi
• Al-nasa’i
• Musnad Ahmad
• Ahmad Reporting From an Apostate Companion:
• Jarh and Ta’dil
• Reliability of the Companions
• Adopting Reliability of All the Sahabah
• Hypocrites Among Sahabah and Surat Al-tawbah:
• Sorcery Hadith Is of Ahad:
• Asking For Hadith Without Fiqh (and What the Traditionists Nicknamed With)
• Conclusion
• The Greatest Calamity Inflicted Islam:
• Aspects of Preponderance Contain Contradiction:
• Rules and Principles
• Original Rules of Rituals and Transactions:
• Bibliography