Re: Why is this?
TLK- what sunnat of how a husband and wife should get close to oen another is understoof by some narration claiming that the prophet had the 'strength' of 40 men...or why noting that the prophet went to 9 wives the same night relevent..what does it tell anyone here? I mean if there was a larger meaning there in the rest of the narration, that obviously did not get covered did it, all those words showed was that hey prophet was with 9 wives in one night..so? so what? what exactly did anyone learn from that little trivia?
look..I am all for education of all items (sadly its the book banign banner waving types that have issues with sex ed but fail to see what is in religious texts, but that is a whole diff topic) but its not just what is said but how it is said. Having personally read all saheeh hadeeth compilations, I can only state my own discomofort at the manner in which some of these things are stated and recorded, they are disrespectful and border on lewd.
and lastly, even with teh best of intentions, mistakes can happen, the compilers of hadeeth were the people who rejected more 'hadeeth' than anyone else, and they used their ability and logic to see which ones made sense, but surely they were not error proof.
There was a schism, political tussle all kinds of tribal, clan and sectarian power struggle going on, so it was not a calm atmosphere that 100 year old events could be remembered verbatim, in their original words, content and context and not be tainted with everything going around.
so the saheeh hadeeth have to be taken with a grain of salt as well...and..if we are going to start using excerpts of some bigger point or something that has to be used with other related narrations to explain something about gender relations or marital responsibilities, lets do that, lets nto throw around partial bits of hadeeth that add no value.