Re: Imam Ali (as) Saying: Taken from Peak of Eloquence
[quote] Those that are not authentic WERE rejected, weren't they? And even when people tried to inject them into the hadith system, they were pulled and were rejected again.
different compilers rejected different hadith ...who will decide which compiler is better
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And what do we find?
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you can find the biography of each narrater their lifestory and their inclinations ....
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Each man reporting the incident must be judged **individually **first before anything can be said or assumed about the incident itself.
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yes thats what i am saying too ...but what is the criterea for his truthfulness?
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So, I don't buy this baseless assumption that since there were different "groups" *(again, how do we know for sure that there were infact different groups when knowledge of that assumption comes to us from hadithes we are trying to prove as false????) *
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because these same people have been highly critical of each other
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I didn't say Prophet handed the books, PEOPLE/SAHABA wrote down what prophet uttered from his mouth.
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and you assume that their was NO DIFFERENCE in what the different sahaba narrated
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Again, your argument is mostly based on assumption and not facts or logical thought. If there was no need to write down anything then why were major treaties written down instead of having all sahaba witness? Why we are told to write our affairs with each other so we may not forget?
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dont misunderstand me i am not against writing down ahadith at all ....
thats why i mentioned "in those days " there was no need since the narraters were alive and numerous