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

Light On the Muhammadan Sunnah Or Defence of the Hadith

Dedication
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My Dear son Mustafa, [\*]

In your presence lies my bliss, and with your light my life be
illuminated. When your full moon set, and your person became out of my
sight, the world encompassed me with its misfortunes and calamities,
rendering me a stranger though being one of its children.

To you, my darling son, I dedicate this book of whose compilation I
never sought but the very truth on which Allah brought you into being,
and which you always used to prefer and have confidence in. And also (I
should) to render service to the knowledge for which you devoted your
self, and spent whole of your life, doing your utmost to acquire it,
giving up the ghost on its way.

O my son, by God I am still keeping the same profound love toward you,
the parable of which no one other than you has ever gained, and your
position in my heart can never be attained by other than you.

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[\*] He is my darling son Mustafa Sadiq, for whom it was destined to
leave this world when he was preparing himself to start new life after
graduating from Cairo University, in the field of Electric Engineering.
And that was on the dawn of Thursday, first of the Month of Ramadan 1359
H., 3rd of October 1940, after remaining for three years suffering of
sickness in Halwan Sanatorium, at the age of 22. Fate didn’t spare me
much time after him, when it targetted his mother, who lost one of her
eyes out of weeping and lamenting him. Thus she also passed away, and I
made for her a special tomb beside her dear son, so as to console each
other. They departed and left me alone in a lasting sorrow and painful
torment till Allah makes me join them.

*Should you be away of my sight and go too far,*

Still in my heart you are present and near,

Your phantom is in my concept and remembrance on my mouth,

And my heart is place of your abode, so where to go?

While grief for you, and feeling sorrowful for you can never be affected
by elapse of days, or be calmed down by prolongation of years, as it is
neither possible to bear patiently your absence, nor consolation is
there for you.

How would I seek recovery of what I have, and nothing,

Is there to cure me except to live in your soil,

Half of my life I spent while the other half is still,

Desiring! And annihilation is of his wishes.

Mahmud Abu Riyyah  
 Cairo – Jizah
