Re: Muslim Blood - Cheap Commodity by Yvonne Ridley
It was not rolling around on people's tongues with no checks for 200-300 years before getting written down.
People would memorize Quranic verses. In hoards. So, if anything would have been written down that was wrong, it would have swiftly been corrected. Additionally, many verses were written down on parchment, tree bark ,and hide, and those verses are in accordance with the written record we have today. It was a more organized form of recording scripture.
The hadith were not memorized and recited this way at all. So, it was difficult to determine whether a report of a hadith was true or not, hence so many claims of hadith got thrown out by collectors and they were very keen on making it clear that they did the best they could with the reports they had. By the time they were collecting hadith - Islam had spread far and people from distant areas were claiming they remembered the Prophet do X or say Y, and it became quite difficult to figure out what was correct and what was not.
Big difference in transmissions of information between the Quran and the Hadith - HUGE!
Please read post no 136 before showing your knowledge and intellect here. Thank You