Sha'irullah
رسول الآلهة
I personally would say that yes Qur'anist are being smart and playing it safe when ti comes to their rejection of ahadith. Ahadith can simply be rejected with pure logic. I shall demonstrated:
"My great great great great great great great grandmother new a guy who heard this guy say "yadadadadda' and he believed his name was Muhammad(pbuh)'".
Ahadith are what I like to call "divine hearsay" and utterly useless if one believes they are following a divine inspired religion. They contain contradiction, errors in transmission and must be weeded out to form a cohesive body and text and not even that works. By doing so the Qur'an must endure nask(abrogation) and be rendered useless. The historicity of ahadith are questioned by historian altogether who view them as completely unreliable. On top of this the advent of the ahadith occurred much later in Islam history and ironically their arise killed off the remnants of the Islamic golden age in favor of Islamic legalism.
Can a valid argument be made for ahadith that is not abiding by circular logic. I have only known Muslims to argue in favor of hadiths by using a mutawirr hadith that says the ahadith are valid. The usage of Qur'anic verses is also used but none of them literally say hadith.
"My great great great great great great great grandmother new a guy who heard this guy say "yadadadadda' and he believed his name was Muhammad(pbuh)'".
Ahadith are what I like to call "divine hearsay" and utterly useless if one believes they are following a divine inspired religion. They contain contradiction, errors in transmission and must be weeded out to form a cohesive body and text and not even that works. By doing so the Qur'an must endure nask(abrogation) and be rendered useless. The historicity of ahadith are questioned by historian altogether who view them as completely unreliable. On top of this the advent of the ahadith occurred much later in Islam history and ironically their arise killed off the remnants of the Islamic golden age in favor of Islamic legalism.
Can a valid argument be made for ahadith that is not abiding by circular logic. I have only known Muslims to argue in favor of hadiths by using a mutawirr hadith that says the ahadith are valid. The usage of Qur'anic verses is also used but none of them literally say hadith.