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

emembereth Allah much,” (Pickthall, 1938) Dr Alvi claims that this verse indicates that
all Muslims will find the Prophet as an exemplar and guidance for an ideal life. Hameed
(2006) and Alvi (1977) both observe that the Holy Book deals with a broad view about
issues, whereas hadiths are specific details about certain issues, most notably the details
of performing prayers and charity, two of the five pillars of Islam.
Hameed (2006) further elaborates that we wouldn't know how to pray, fast,
observe charity, or perform Hajj “without the examples given by the Prophet as recorded
in the hadith”. In fact, all necessary tidbits regarding the Islamic rituals, Hameed (2006)
examines, are not in the Quran, but the hadith.
While discussing the authenticity of the hadiths, Dr Bucaille (1978) questions the
science of collection of the hadiths, drawing similarities between the hadiths and the
Gospels, mentioning that “neither of them was compiled by an author who was an
eyewitness of the events he describes”. He also notes the dubiety of the hadiths among
the Muslim community themselves, since only a small fraction has been accepted to be
authentic by all Islamic scholars “quasi-unanimously”. So in a “Sahih Muslim”
collection, we will find hadiths that “Al Bukhari” thinks is dubious and must be rejected
outright.
Four books were published within 1977 and 1978 that specifically disturbed
Muslim scholars (Silverstein, 2010) because these books told that Islamic historians, the
primary people responsible for the collection and authentication of hadiths, had done a
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