usefulness of hadith

Submitted by Mohammed Waza Khiddif Id'ullah (Australia), Jan 11, 2015 at 21:01

DNM: "...Ibn Hisham's redaction of Ibn Ishaq's sira (which is not extant) makes it very clear that he is editing and deleting all the unpleasant information Ibn Ishaq transmitted in his sira but we still got much of the nasty stuff about Muhammad.."

And that redaction was happening in the 8th century??? How sordid must those details have been for him to have censored them more than 1200 years ago when society's sensibilties were nowhere near as refned as they are today?

That has been one thing that puzzles me about islam. With all the evidence in the hadith ... - why did they leave it in and pass it off as one of their 'holy' books? It's incomprehensible how they can expect people to take them seriously when at various times they quote hadith and at other times say it is false or 'weakly reliable'. The end result is that rank and file muslims don't really know what they believe or what to believe.

The hadith came into its own again this week in the light of the Paris massacre as muslim spokesturds were going about their business of claiming that mo never hurt anybody for ridiculing him. Passages were listed from the hadith showing very clearly that he did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDZix-oIsYY

http://www.answering-islam.org/Authors/Arlandson/free_speech.htm

http://www.answering-islam.org/Authors/Arlandson/dead_poets.htm

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