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

Mr Choudhury further continued by expressing his utmost disappointment at the
fact that nobody bothered to publicly study the Quran. There have been extensive studies
on hadiths and Shariah Laws and all other things, but never officially on the Quran.
Mr Choudhury mentioned that many saheeh hadiths are highly corrupted in their
meaning. Mr Choudhury observes how ridiculous it is that the hadiths have banned
statues and pictures because people worship them. He challenged the hadith-believers to
destroy the sun, the moon, the mountains and the planets, for people worship them too,
and as a matter of fact, people still worship them in this era. Moreover, Mr Choudhury
mentions that the Prophet Solomon was praised by God for building statues and
beautifying the city, and God asked his bondmen to be thankful for that.
Mr Choudhury also cast doubts about the character of the Prophet‟s companions,
on whose records we follow the hadiths. These were the same companions who slandered
about Aisha, the wife of the Prophet, when she returned home one night with a handsome
stranger. He says, God asks them, why could they not think good of the Prophet and his
family, but spread slander? God rebukes the companions for that, calling them untruthful
in Surah Nur. He then questions, how do we believe in the hadiths transmitted by these
companions?
One of Mr Choudhury‟s biggest accusations against the hadiths was the fact that
the first hadiths were recorded some 250 years after the death of the Prophet, and hence,
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