Re: Details of interpreting verses from the Qur’an and obvious blunders
To me, Quranic teachings hold more importance than any of the scholar’s interpretation of any verse or hadith. If their interpretation is in complete accordance to Quran and ahadith, I accept it, or else I question.. theres no restrictions on me according to Islam to question the beliefs if I see them not synchronizing with Quran and ahadith. The ahadith you speak about is of the coming of Messiah in Muslim Ummah. When Qur’an have many verses announcing His death, I do not understand why would you insist on keeping Isa a.s alive. There are ahadith which clears the doubt that the future messiah will be different than Messiah sent before (physical appearance).. I’ve never rejected any hadith speaking of Messiah coming.. but these ahadith needs to be interpreted. If we wait for Messiah the same way jews waited, and reject Him based on the same premises jews rejected their messiah, then we as muslims are following the footsteps of jews, which again is a hadith that Muslims will be like jews in their traits.
Furthermore, there are ahadith such as the event of Mir’aj in which prophet of Allah saw Jesus a.s. Another hadith provides the definition that Muhammad PBUH himself did of the word tawaffii. There are other ahadith as such which you completely ignore or have your hand on it to hide it.
The belief of Jesus alive in heavens does not date back to the time of Muhammad PBUH. As I said earlier, we see no evidence in the time of Muhammad PBUH where any Christian might have argued with Muslim about the ascension of Isa a.s and calling their belief same as that of Muslims.
What traditional chain are you referring to where the ascension of Isa a.s is mentioned ? 