The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Hadith is a concise yet comprehensive overview of both Islamic and Western traditions of hadith study, offering up-to-date scholarship and providing readers with an essential guide to this distinctive aspect of Islam. Yet despite its importance to Muslims worldwide and its indispensable role as a source for early Islamic history, the hadith remains unexplored territory for many non-specialist readers. Alongside the Qur'an, the hadith forms a second major body of Islamic scripture, and much of Islamic belief and practice rests on the hadith including Islamic law, Islamic theology, Qur'anic interpretation, political thought, and personal behavior. The most comprehensive and up-to-date English-language guide on hadith scholarship The source of much of our knowledge of the first two centuries of Islamic history, the hadith literature is made up of thousands of traditions collected during the formative years of Islam. The Wiley Blackwell Concise Companion to The Hadith It also underscores the gulf that exists between the sanctum of orthodox Islam and an increasingly secularized Westernized world. To non-Muslims this work provides many insights into the mindset of the average Muslim who is raised on these traditions about Muhammad. To them morality derives from the Prophet's actions.his actions determine and define morality." The Sahih Muslim, a massive work consisting of 7,190 traditions divided into 1,243 chapters, is hardly accessible to the average reader so Swarup quotes representative selections that touch upon the main tenets of Islam: faith, purification, prayer, fasting, pilgrimage, marriage and divorce, crime and punishment, religious wars (jihad), paradise, hell, repentance, and many other features of the religion. The answer is that the believers are conditioned to look at the whole thing through the eyes of faith. left to wonder how the believers, generation after generation, could have found this story so inspiring.
The picture that emerges is hardly flattering. In the introduction he says, "The Prophet is caught as it were in the ordinary acts of his life - sleeping, eating, mating, praying, hating, dispensing justice, planning expeditions and revenge against his enemies. Swarup is plainly skeptical of the claim that the Hadith literature is divinely inspired. As Swarup notes in his introduction, to Muslims the Hadith literature represents the Koran in action, stories of "revelation made concrete in the life of the Prophet." Among the orthodox they are considered as sacred as the Koran itself. Like the Koran, these traditions are believed to be divinely revealed by Allah and they complement the verses of the Koran, in many cases expanding upon them and explaining the context of their revelation. Noted Indian writer and polymath Ram Swarup explores the meaning of Islam through the words of the Sahih Muslim, considered by Muslims to be one of the most authoritative of the collections of "traditions" (Arabic Hadith) about the life of the Prophet Muhammad.
The Case of Musa ? and the Stone - Half the Earnings Belong to the Sea! - A Woman Corrects a Scholar - The Woman with Wooden Sandals - Half the Earnings Belong to the Sea! - A Jar Full of Gold finds no Claimant - Jurayj Al-Abid. The Old Woman of the Bani Isra'il - I Contradict My Eyes. My Lord and yours is Allah - Even Thought it was an Ant. An example of just a few of the many stories that can be found in this eBook are: - The Beautician of the Daughter of Fir'awn. All the true life accounts are taken from authentic Islamic sources. The story is wound up with the lessons and guidance drawn from the events. These are helpful in understanding the original true life event and original Hadith. This is followed by an explanation of the Hadith and other relative narrations, including those of the Companions.
The Author briefly introduces each incident, then presents the Hadith and its translation.
There are also many such narrations which the Qur'an has by-passed, but are mentioned in the Prophetic Narrations. Which itself includes many stories for the benefit of human kind. In the Islamic tradition the Narrations - Had?th - of the Prophet Muhammad ? act as a commentary or an exegesis on the Holy Qur'an. The eBook also includes references for the Hadith in detail. The stories cover events from the lives of the Prophets including the Prophet Adam, Salih, Ibrahim, Musa, Lut, Dawood as well as other historical individuals. It includes a compilation and explanation of many many stories found in the Islamic traditions concerning historical events and the lessons derived from them. It will not be an exaggeration to say that this eBook brought to you by Scribe Digital is one of its kind in the English language.