Spread Of Islam Research Paper
Islam
EDITED BY
John Alden Williams
GEORGE BRAZILLER
NEW YORK
1962
[c. 1961, not renewed]
CHAPTER TWO
The Ḥadīth: The News of God 's Messenger
Next to the Qur’ān itself, the most important Islamic textual material is the Ḥadīth: the body of transmitted actions and sayings of the Prophet and his Companions.
Professor Wilfred C. Smith has made a most perceptive analogy: the Qur’ān is in Islam what Christ is in Christianity, and Muhammad stands in relation to it as the Twelve Apostles to the Logos. The Ḥadīth, the record of how the Revelation occurred, and the Acts of the Apostle, or Messenger, is to Islam then roughly what the New Testament is to Christianity. 1
But here one must understand something which seems at first paradoxical; there are vast numbers of ḥadīths which are admitted by Muslim scholars to be spurious. Even among those accepted by the medieval scholars, there are many which the modernists would reject. No absolute canon of Ḥadīth has ever been established; certain compilers are recognized as more trustworthy than others, and some sects and schools accept ḥadīths not accepted by others. For …show more content…
When they have learned that, inform them that God has prescribed for the five ritual prayers a day. When they have made the ritual prayers, inform them that God has imposed zakāt on their possessions, to be taken from the rich and given to the poor. When they have accepted all this, then take the tax from them, but leave them their most precious possessions: '" '" '"
EDITED BY
John Alden Williams
GEORGE BRAZILLER
NEW YORK
1962
[c. 1961, not renewed]
CHAPTER TWO
The Ḥadīth: The News of God 's Messenger
Next to the Qur’ān itself, the most important Islamic textual material is the Ḥadīth: the body of transmitted actions and sayings of the Prophet and his Companions.
Professor Wilfred C. Smith has made a most perceptive analogy: the Qur’ān is in Islam what Christ is in Christianity, and Muhammad stands in relation to it as the Twelve Apostles to the Logos. The Ḥadīth, the record of how the Revelation occurred, and the Acts of the Apostle, or Messenger, is to Islam then roughly what the New Testament is to Christianity. 1
But here one must understand something which seems at first paradoxical; there are vast numbers of ḥadīths which are admitted by Muslim scholars to be spurious. Even among those accepted by the medieval scholars, there are many which the modernists would reject. No absolute canon of Ḥadīth has ever been established; certain compilers are recognized as more trustworthy than others, and some sects and schools accept ḥadīths not accepted by others. For …show more content…
When they have learned that, inform them that God has prescribed for the five ritual prayers a day. When they have made the ritual prayers, inform them that God has imposed zakāt on their possessions, to be taken from the rich and given to the poor. When they have accepted all this, then take the tax from them, but leave them their most precious possessions: '" '" '"