Jamal al-Banna, a younger brother of Hassan al-Banna (founder of the Muslim Brotherhood) has just published a book in which he argues that 653 of the hadiths as written in al-Bukhari and Muslim are incorrect and should not be accepted. The Arabic book is titled The Cleansing of Bukhari and Muslim from useless Hadiths (2008). After the Qur’an, al-Bukhari’s collection of hadiths (the acts and sayings of the prophet Muhammad) is considered the most sacred book in Islam; never before has any Muslim scholar who lives in the Arab world, thrown so much doubt – publicly - on the sources of Islam.

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But Mr Jamal al-Banna (86 years old now) is used to being attacked by al-Azhar, and he says he does not care. He excludes six kinds of hadiths: • Those that explain the Qur’an: the Qur’an can’t by explained by hadiths. • Those that talk bad about women - like the one’s that call them equal to dogs and cows and to beat them up and so on.

• Those that forbid the freedom of religion and that threaten those who leave Islam. • Those with extreme ideas for encouraging people into Islam and the ones threatening people wit physical violence. • Those that talk about Muhammad’s miracles. • Some others of which he thinks that the story is not true at all.

An interview with him in 2005, in which he is also critical of the usage of the hadiths. Unfortunately he has no chance of success. For Muslims to accept that these Hadith are flawed they would have to explain how Allah allowed them to be accepted and retained for so long. Then they would need to ask how anyone could be sure about any Hadith.

Without the Hadith, commands for Muslims to follow Mohamed as a perfect example in his words and deeds would be foolish since the Hadith are the only source of information about what he said and did. But his words might get some more Muslims thinking about these issues and interested in how the doctrine of Islam came to be. Such knowledge is very dangerous to Islam.

Anonymous said. At least one person has got the courage to challenge the lies that Bukhari and Muslim propagate in the name of Islam and Hadith. However it might not be out place to mention that most of these false hadith are quoted in these stupid books from one lier Abu Huraira who became Muslim in the later years of the Prophet Mohammad PUBH. Not surprisingly he was a Yemeni Jew who propbably converted to Islam only to berate it from inside just as St Paul who was the head rabbi of his times converted to Chtistianity to spoil the Bible from inside. Poor believers of Bukhari and even poor the Believers of St Paul. No wonder the Jews are reviled even after 3000 years of their existence.

Anonymous said. I commend Jamal Banna for bringing forth this issue. Hadith has plagued the muslims for 1200 yrs (since they started showing up 200 yrs after Prophet Muhammed's death). Hadith has been used to come with the so called Shariah law which by all standards is entrenched in making lives more miserable than comfortable e.g. Adobe illustrator cs3 indowebster idm. Adulterers should be stoned to death. That is not in the Quran (however it is in Torah). As per Snake Oil Baron's comments, what Anonymous said was exactly true and further more about Allah allowing the hadith to persist 'wrong' remains in the world so human beings can tested.