Uloom-ul-Hadith - Status of Hadith in Shariah.

Qur’an and Hadith is Included in Shariah of Islam.Those who reject HADITH, don’t think HADITH as law. Instead they think it as arab customs or traditions.It’s a fact, that if someone don’t follow customs or traditions of any specific country, they wont be punished in AKHIRAH. For example, The traditional dress of arab, pakistan, india, and many other Muslim countries are different. If a person don’t wear dress of any of these countries then ALLAH wont punish him because its not fard on him.However, one must wear dress within limits of islam about dress. Therefore, munkary hadith(hadith rejecters) consider Hadith nothing but Only arab customs. They think it’s not fard to follow it because it’s just TRADITION OR CUSTOM OF ARAB.

On the other hand, Qura’n says to follow Prophet and includes Hadith in Shariah.Evidence in Surah Al-Hashr , Ayah 7,

“ And whatsoever the Messenger (Muhammad ) gives you, take it, and whatsoever he forbids you, abstain (from it) , and fear Allah. Verily, Allah is Severe in punishment.”

“And whatsoever ” means whatever Messenger gives you, YOU have to take it or in other words, It’s FARD on you to take it and whatever he stops you from,YOU SHOULD STOP FROM IT. If you wont stop from whatever Prophet stopped you and didn’t take whatever HE gives you means,”Hadith included in Shariah”. Then wait for the punishment of ALLAH. Astagfirullah. May ALLAH save us Ameen.

Those who reject Hadith, automatically reject this ayah and if you reject one ayah that means you reject Whole Quran. Thats why ALLAH says that “FEAR ALLAH.VERILY, Allah is severe in punishment”.

This ayah gives status of Shariah to Prophet. Therefore, whatever Prophet commands we must follow it.

Another evidence of Prophet having status of Shariah, that whatever he forbids consider it HARAM and whatever he makes it HALAL, consider it HALAL. This makes up laws in islam.Evidence from Surah A A’raf , Ayah 157

“ -He (Mohammad) commands them what is right and forbids them what is evil; He makes lawful to them what is good and makes unlawful what is foul; he releases them from their heavyburdens (of Allah’s Covenant), and from the fetters (bindings) that were upon them. So those who believe in him (Muhammad ), honour him, help him, and follow the light (the Qur’an) which has been sent down with him, it is they who will be successful .”

Who are successful people?

“So those who believe in him (Muhammad ), honour him, help him, and follow the light (the Qur’an) which has been sent down with him, it is they who will be successful .”

This ayah proves that whatever Prophet forbid is forbidden and whatever he made halal is halal which we learn in Hadith. Alhamdu-lillah.As we know only 4 things are mentioned in Qur’an which are forbidden.Those are :

1- anything over which other name than that of Allah has been invoked.

2-Pork Meat and Pork.

3-Dead animal.

4- The blood which flow during the slaughter of animal.

Apart from this, Prophet stated many things Haram. For example,

Sayyiduna Anas ibn Malik (Allah be pleased with him) narrates that a person came to the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him & give him peace) and said: “The donkeys have been (slaughtered and) eaten.” Another man came and said: “The donkeys have been destroyed.” The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him & give him peace) ordered a caller to announce to the people: “Allah and His Messenger forbid you to eat the meat of donkeys, for it is impure.” Thus the pots were turned upside down while the (donkey’s) meat was boiling in them.” (Sahih al-Bukhari, no: 5208)

Now a days people do consider DONKEY MEAT as HARAM but still they reject Hadith. Allah knows best what’s in thier mind.And Prophet himself says that something is given to him similar to Qura’n which is offcourse HADITH.

It was narrated from al-Miqdaam ibn Ma’di Yakrib (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said:
“Verily I have been given the Qur’an and something similar to it along with it. But soon there will be a time when a man will be reclining on his couch with a full stomach, and he will say, ‘You should adhere to this Qur’an: what you find that it says is permissible, take it as permissible, and what you find it says is forbidden, take it as forbidden.’ But indeed, whatever the Messenger of Allah forbids is like what Allah forbids.”
Narrated by al-Tirmidhi (2664). “

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Alhamdu-lillah. It’s blessing of ALLAH if you have read this post in which Qura’n proves that Prophet was given status to make SHARIAH and today we learn it from Hadith. You cannot reject Hadith after so many proves from Qura’n and Sunnah.