Its unbelieveable how quickly some of you say “Our Prophet (saw) could have never said this” or insult Imam Bukhari’s intentions. How can any of us here be bigger scholars than Bukhari or claim to KNOW what the Prophet could and could not have said? That includes me, but at least I’m not blatantly insulting people who are very dear to our religion.
There is an actual science to verifying hadith. Its a different story if you dont accept hadiths, and in that case, you have a much bigger problem since even the method by which we pray has come from hadiths. Or maybe some of you are misunderstanding the hadith…the hadith is not telling women to prostrate to their husbands, it is emphasizing the fact that we can ONLY prostrate to Allah (swt). It also touches upon the strength of the relationship between man and wife, and despite the rights entitled by this relationship, we are still forbidden to prostrate to another human being and thus, God’s rights over us supersede all.
It is through the Prophet (saw) that the revelation was transmitted to the people so of course he had the authority to allow things…he didn’t decide what was allowed, but he did tell the people what was allowed by God. If you look up the history of the revelation concerning alcohol, you’ll see what I mean. And attacking the hadith on a word by word basis, especially since its been translated into English and couldn’t possibly be 100% accurate considering it was originally said in Arabic, is sort of pointless.