Same History of Talmud and Hadiths: You be the Judge

Talmud

Hadiths of Bukhari and Friends

1. It is a foundation of our faith to believe that God gave Moses an oral explanation of the Torah along with the written text. source 2. G‑d told Moses that he will give him "the Torah and the commandments." Why did G‑d add the word "commandments?" Are there any commandments which are not included in the Torah? This verse (amongst others) is a clear inference to the existence of the Oral Torah. source 3. Without an oral tradition, some of the Torah's laws would be incomprehensible. In the Shema's first paragraph, the Bible instructs: "And these words which I command you this day shall be upon your heart. And you shall teach them diligently to your children, and you shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk on the road, when you lie down and when you rise up. And you shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes." "Bind them for a sign upon your hand," the last verse instructs. Bind what? The Torah doesn't say. "And they shall be for frontlets between your eyes." What are frontlets? The Hebrew word for frontlets, totafot is used three times in the Torah — always in this context (Exodus 13:16; Deuteronomy 6:8, 11:18) — and is as obscure as is the English. Only in the Oral Law do we learn that what a Jewish male should bind upon his hand and between his eyes are tefillin (phylacteries). source 4. Originally the Oral Law was not transcribed. Instead it was transmitted from father to son and from teacher to disciple (thus the name "Oral" Law) source. 5. Although much of the work may have already been done by previous generations of rabbis, the monumental task of editing, explaining and organizing this vast amount of material was left to Rabbi Yehudah. The end result of this massive undertaking was a definitive, yet cryptic (the basic principles were all there yet a teacher was still required to elucidate the material) version of the entire Oral Law source 6. Defining Mishna: A noun formed from the verb "shanah," which has the same meaning as the Aramaic "matnita," derived from "teni" or "tena." The verb "shanah," which originally meant "to repeat," acquired in post-Biblical Hebrew the special force of "to teach" and "to learn" that which was not transmitted in writing but only orally; the development of connotation being due to the fact that the retention of teachings handed down by word of mouth was possible only by frequent recitation. source 7. The Mishnah is sometimes called Shas (an acronym for Shisha Sedarim – the "six orders"), though that term is more often used for the Talmud as a whole. The six orders are: Zera'im ("Seeds"), dealing with prayer and blessings, tithes and agricultural laws (11 tractates) Mo'ed ("Festival"), pertaining to the laws of the Sabbath and the Festivals (12 tractates) Nashim ("Women"), concerning marriage and divorce, some forms of oaths and the laws of the nazirite (7 tractates) Nezikin ("Damages"), dealing with civil and criminal law, the functioning of the courts and oaths (10 tractates) Kodashim ("Holy things"), regarding sacrificial rites, the Temple, and the dietary laws (11 tractates) and Tohorot ("Purities"), pertaining to the laws of purity and impurity, including the impurity of the dead, the laws of food purity and bodily purity (12 tractates).

1. The Qur’an is the message, and the Hadith is the explanation of the message by the Messenger himself source .In this article, I will prove, using verses from the Quran, that Prophet Muhammed (p) did indeed receive other revelation besides the Quran source. 2. Recall how Shafi Shafi popularized the rumor that hikma means sunnah by using the verse in which Allah says he gave the Prophet the Book and wisdom. 3. If anyone's interpretation of the Qur'an was to be accepted and there was no hadiths at all, then we would not know why certain things were mentioned in the Qur'an source. Much of Islam will remain mere abstract concepts without Hadith. We would never know how to pray, fast, pay zakah, or make pilgrimage without the illustration found in Hadith, for these acts of worship remain as abstract imperatives in the Qur’an source. 4. A hadith was originally an oral tradition about the actions and customs and opinions of the  Muhammad source. 5.Before Imam Bukhari (R.A) had started to collect ahaadeeth there had actually been quite a few published books of ahaadeeth in which Imam Bukhari (R.A) found ahaadeeth of both weak and strong testimonials, which gave him the idea to compile such a kitaab containing ahaadeeth of only strong testimonials. Ishaaq Ibn Rahway (R.A) agreed to this idea which strengthened Imam Bukhari’s (R.A) decision.  source 6. Defining Musnad: Al-Hakim defines a Musnad ("supported") hadith as follows: "A hadith which a traditionalist reports from his shaikh from whom he is known to have heard (ahadith) at a time of life suitable for learning, and similarly in turn for each shaikh, until the isnad reaches a well- known Companion, who in turn reports from the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace). source 7. Six Major Hadith books Sahih Bukhari, collected by Imam Bukhari (d. 870), includes 7000+ ahadith Sahih Muslim, collected by Muslim b. al-Hajjaj (d. 875), includes 9000+ ahadith Sunan al-Nasa'i, collected by al-Nasa'i (d. 915) Sunan Abu Dawood, collected by Abu Dawood (d. 888) Jami al-Tirmidhi, collected by al-Tirmidhi (d. 892) Sunan ibn Majah, collected by Ibn Majah (d. 887)