mclovin wrote:Kaafiye wrote:
There are hadith isnaad chains which date back to the time of the Prophet which have been scrutinized and verified as original. I've already gone on about how the Islamic historical method is the most accurate, even more unbiased and factual than the Western historical method.
There are entire volumes of hadith sciences which go into this issue in more detail, and nothing I say on this forum thread would be able to summarize this.
The problem with that is how did the people compiling the hadith know who the people in the isnad even were? These people died over a hundred years after the hadith were written down so no one alive at the time knew who any of them were. The only way the muhaddithun at the time knew about these people are from biographies derived hadith.
That makes the hadiths are circular, meaning the hadith derives its authority from itself. Which the hadith sciences pointless because the hadith uses the hadith to prove itself right.
This is why we need documents from the time these people were alive to provide a secondary resource to the hadith, which no one has ever found. That make the hadith all together an unreliable historical account of muhammad's life.
Are you kidding me? Do you even know how the isnaad chains for hadiths work? The hadiths are written down, transmitted between well-known and trusted Islamic figures, in a chain that typically ranges from 4-6 people. Every single man in the chain is scrutinized, and only a few narrations survive such a thorough check. In fact, many historians have said that the Islamic historical method is far more accurate than that of any other.
The hadiths themselves were written down and passed down and verified as original at the time of their collection. Instead of sounding idiotic, study the hadith sciences and read this for yourself. Anyone with even a minimal knowledge of hadiths would understand this point.
This article goes into more detail about this issue:
http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Hadith/bukhari.html
Just stop. Your appalling lack of knowledge on Islam gets displayed here everytime you post.