Textual Studies of the Hadith - National Open University of Nigeria

ISL222 TEXTUAL STUDIES OF THE HADITH
Lessons
The following lessons are derivable from the hadith:
1. Anger should be controlled in any circumstance.
2. Through anger, man losses his sense of discretion and this may
lead him to doing worse things or comitting more gravious sins.
3. Uncontrolled anger begets regrets in private, public and religious
lives.
SELF-ASSESSMENT EXERCISE 6
Assess your level of fluency in reading the Arabic text of hadith 16.
4.0 CONCLUSION
Our closer look at all the hadiths discussed in this unit, just like others,
will show those basic guidelines that would make life worth living for
man if followed. All the hadiths which primarily address the Muslims
are also important for all human beings irrespective of religion, sex or
race. They form the fundamental recipes for a peaceful and orderly
society.
5.0 SUMMARY
• The major theme of hadith 11 is that a Muslim must leave those
acts in which he is doubtful and embrace those in which there is
no doubt expecially on matters that have to do with religion.
• Hadith 12 stresses that one of the best determinants of man’s
• religious value is to abstain from interfering in another man’s
affairs.
• Hadith 13 states that man’s belief can adequately be measured
• when he wishes for others what he wishes for himself.
• Hadith 14 gives the conditions under which a man may face
capital punishment: a married man who commits adultery, a man
who kills another man unjustly and one who renounces his Islam
and thereafter causes evils in the society.
• Hadith 15 teaches etiquettes in speech, good neighbourliness and
hospitality to guest.
• Hadith 16 is emphatic in its warning to mankind to shun anger.
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