Research Paper Analysis of Credibility of Hadiths and Its Influence ...

second and third century after the Prophet‟s death on oral traditions. Moreover, there are
doubts about the political motivation in which the hadith narrators wrote the hadiths. We
have seen that hadiths contradict with common sense, and some even contradict with the
Quran.
With such grave allegations against the hadiths, accepting the hadiths is a highly
uncertain issue, and one doing so would be doing it on a strictly faith-based ground, and
not on logical grounds.
It is interesting to note that the contemporary Muslim world wants very little to do
with the debate. The survey clearly showed most regular Muslims to be apathetic. They
are a community where they have full faith in God, but aren‟t much concerned about the
do‟s and don‟t‟s of Islam. This population, the large majority, doesn‟t really care about
hadiths or the petty issues that the clerics bicker about, but accept that anything and
everything can hold true, as long as there has been fair amount of research and
questioning.
So although believing in hadiths can be a very uncertain issue, the layman Muslim
will show some adherence to it, perhaps more because of the cultural implications than
the religious ones. Indeed, if religious propaganda doesn‟t increase piety and obedience
towards the hadiths, anti-propaganda against the hadiths will not make the Muslims any
less obedient towards them. Obedience towards hadith, and to a larger extent, adherence
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