People can die over Haadith text, but then on the other hand Haadith's are collected by men like us after hundred of years of death of Prophet (PBUH) !..
Haadith's are having an often negative influence on a society and it's responsible for obscuring the original values of Islam. Unfortunately you can even justify through alleged Haadith, the Muslim - or pseudo Muslim - practice of female genital mutilation.
One more example can be: There are some Haadith's that ban women from traveling for three days or more without their husband's permission and they are genuine. But this is not religious ban, it's came in to because of enviornmental situation of Prophet (PBUH) time.
Then their are alot of other Haadith's which came in to Islamic text from the influence of other culture's. In my life time i remember few Haadith's which every other person has different and total opposite translation !
Do you mean we should remove ahadees?
If I agree with you at one point but a person who is giving decision to remove ahaadees is he capable of doing that by that I mean that does he have an extensive knowledge of religion. Does he know Quran and at least two tafseers translation and know the ilm of all fiqhs so he can compare things.
People like Imam Bukhari were not scholars but they had extensive knowledge of deen, they spend their lives thinking and searching for Islam. Are we on that level? Firenze it’s very easy to say "Haadith's are collected by men like us” but do you have knowledge of their level. Are you at least doing search on deen or its just your opinion derive from common sense because there is always a difference between a person who knows every single word of Quran and a person who just listens and spend a little time on Islam. I will be able to agree with you when you will say that I have read Quran, Tafaseer, Fiqh all ahadees books, so by reading those I hereby declare that these ahadees meant nothing. People spent their lives reading and understanding Quran are we doing that?
The only thing is that those people were near to Hazrat Mohammad and we are way far. I think as far as I got the idea from your posts you seem like devoted Muslim who prays and who is intelligent enough to understand deen, so my brother of Islam all I am saying is at that time there was a little chance of mistake but after 1400 years the chance is that we can make more mistakes, I am not saying you agree with me but we should be very careful making decisions on our own.