Yeah aik hadeeth kisi nay forward key hay jo kaafi hud tak Quran kay qareeb hay
Iss may bhi Quran parhnay ko kaha hay!
Narrated Al-Harith Al-A'war:
"I passed by the Masjid when the people were absorbed in story-telling. So I entered upon 'Ali and said: 'O Commander of the believers! Do you not see the people are becoming engrossed in story-telling?' He said: 'They have been consumed with it?' I said: "Yes.' He said: 'As for me, I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) saying: "Indeed there comes a Fitnah" So I said: "What is the way out from it O Messenger of Allah?" He said: "Allah's book. In it is news for what happened before you, and information about what comes after you, and judgment for what happens between you. It is the Criterion (between right and wrong) without jest. Whoever among the oppressive abandons it, Allah crushes him, and whoever seeks guidance from other than it, then Allah leaves him to stray. It is the firm rope of Allah, it is the wise remembrance, it is the straight path, and it is the one that the desires can not distort, nor can the tongues twist it, nor can the scholars ever have enough of it, and it shall not become dull from reciting it much, and the amazement of it does not diminish. It is the one that when the Jinns hear it, they did not hesitate to say about it: 'Verily, we have heard a wonderful Recitation (this Qur'an)! 'It guides to the Right Path, and we have believed therein.' Whoever speaks according to it then he has said the truth, and whoever acts according to it he is rewarded, and whoever judges by it he has judged justly, and whoever invites to it then he guides to the straight path." Take this O A'war!'.
If you look at the history of hadith, it might have started as a good thing because a lot of lies and tall tales had been started to be attributed to the Prophet and as time went on and more and more sahaba passed away this also increased. So some started an effort to stop these lies and put to pen what they could verify according to their own understanding.
Now the thing is even in this day and age it is impossible to verify what was said 2 centuries ago let along 1200 years ago, at best you can get some kind of outline and general jist and then the other even bigger problem arises that these so called sahih are not so sahih themselves if you did into their histories.
For example they say Bhukari never wrote down any hadith he collected and relied solely on his memory, and its a well know that it said he collected over 600,0000 of them, how can you anyone believe a person can memorize over half a million hadith including its chains. Then it is also said he had 90,000 students to which he passed on his hadith and out of those 90,000 we have allegedly a transmission of only unknow person. Al Farabari this in it self is makes the whole collection of bhukari labeled as fabricated and at best weak/dhaieef and then to top it all off only one student of frabari, another unknow chap called Al mustamil is the only one who copied from farabari and himself said his copy was incomplete and missing a lot of pages so he filled them in himself. So basically its Sahih Al Mustamil
Similar issues with Musnad Hanbal, only copy of his collection was I think with his son who coulp possibly not learned so many 1000s of hadith because he was just a child when his father died and lot of it was lost in a flood and then some other fellow just picked up hadith from here and there and completed it.
Also how a know "muhadith" use to switch names of narrators, attribute hadiths by a well know liar and fabricator and write it down as by Abu Huraira and the Abu Harairas hadith as by that liar.
The more to look into it the more junk you find and this is all verified in books of 7th 8th hijri writers in their books,
So these hadith are good to read and does offer some insight into about early Islamic history and happening and some vague biographical account of the Prophets life and there are lot of good things said in them but you cannot extract and deen aur fiqh from it, how can you anyways follow or accept anything to 100% fact when it is riddled with lies and contradiction. No one really knows who said what and who wrote what, who made up what story and what has any truth in it at all , if any.
Its just a huge mess from the word get go.
If I was forced to recommend a hadith book to someone. It would be Al Muwatta by Imam Malik, he is only Arab and from Medina whose own family lineage goes to the sahaba. Rest are all Persians from Bukhara to present day Irani side of Balouchistan.
And even he warned not to take any deen from his hadith because if you do they will do nothing but snatch it right out of your hand. Probably warning that you will stop following the Quran and start following hadith instead.
Anyways in a nutshell hadith at best a vague not too reliable version of early Islamic history, because there are lots of stories like how after some battle the prophet order all the Jewish men to gathered and then executed them all for no rhyme or reason!
If you are familar with seera of the Prophet that goes totally against his character, specially after having won the battle. as its said he was always in favour of releasing prisoners of war for a ransom or teaching 10 Muslims how to read and right and then one day he does this!!!
