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Mahmoud Al-Misri
06-18-2007, 01:47 PM
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Some fabricated [traditions] in al-Ihya’

In the Name of Allâh, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful

All the praises and thanks be to Allâh, the Lord of the 'Alamîn (mankind, jinns and all that exists), and the Peace and Blessings of Allah on the best of all the Messengers, and on all his companions and household.

Here are a few of the Rejected and Forged traditions [falsely] attributed to Prophet Muhammad (Peace be Upon him), from the book of Ihyaa' 'Uloom Al-Din by Al-Ghazali (May Allah have mercy on him), which exceeded the hundreds, by the declaration of Al-Hafiz Al-'Iraqi (May Allah have mercy on him), and from these traditions:

- Hadith: “I complained to Gabriel of my weakness in coitus, and he suggested [for me the] harisah”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: Narrated by ibn ‘Ady from the hadith of Huzaifa and ibn Abbas, and al-‘Uqaili from the hadith Mu’az and Jaber ibn Samra, and ibn Hiban in “al-Du’afaa” from the hadith of Huzaifa, and al-Uzdi in “al-Du’afaa” from the hadith of abu Huraira from ways all of which are weak. Ibn ‘Ady said: Fabricated, and al-‘Uqaili said: Void (Baatil)

- Hadith: “It was also related that one of them pushed the Prophet in the chest, so her mother scolded her. The Prophet said: Leave her alone; they [wives] do worse than that”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: I found no base for it (Lam Aqif Lahu ‘alaa Asl)

- Hadith narrated by abu Zaar: “To be present in the circle of a learned man is better than prostrating oneself in prayer a thousand times or visiting a thousand sick men or following a thousand funerals.” It was then said: “O Apostle of Allah is it also better than the reading of the Quran?” To which he replied, “What good though is the Qur’an except through knowledge?”
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: Ibn al-Jawzi mentioned it in “al-Mawdoo’at” from the hadith of ‘Omar, and I didn’t find it from the way of abu Zaar

- Hadith: “A little bit of divine guidance is better than a great deal of knowledge”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: I found no base for it (Lam Ajid Lahu Aslan), and it was mentioned by the author of “al-Firdaws” from the hadith of abu al-Dardaa’, but he said intellect (Aql) instead of knowledge, and his son did not mention it in his Musnad

- Hadith: “No people are ever given to logic and debate without being lost to useful work”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: I found no base for it (Lam Ajid Lahu Aslan)

- Hadith: “The believer is free from rancour”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: I found no base for it (Lam Aqif Lahu ‘ala Asl)

- Hadith: “If men had been forbidden to make porridge of camels’ dung, they would have done it, saying that they would not have been forbidden to do it unless there had been some good in it”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: I did not find it

- Hadith related by Mu'az: “Among the afflictions of the learned man is to prefer talking to listening”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: narrated by abu Nu’aym and ibn al-Jawzi in “al-Mawdoo’at”

- Hadith related by Jabir: “Do not attend the circle of any learned man except he who would call upon you to relinquish five things in favor of five others, namely to relinquish doubt in favor of belief, hypocrisy in favor of sincerity, worldliness in favor of asceticism, pride in favor of humility, and enmity in favor of love”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: narrated by abu Nu’aym in “al-Hulia” and ibn al-Jawzi in “al-Mawdoo’at”

- Hadith: “A certain man came to the Apostle of Allah and said, “Teach me some of the strange facts of knowledge.” To which the Apostle replied, “What hast thou done with the beginning of knowledge?”
“But what is the beginning of knowledge?” the man retorted. The Prophet replied, “Hast thou known the exalted Lord?” “Yes”, said the man. “And what hast thou done for Him?” “Oh well,” replied the man. “And has thou know what death is?” added the Prophet. “Yes”, replied the man. “And what hast thou prepared for it?” inquired the Prophet, “Oh well,” protested the man. Thereupon the Prophet said, “Go thou first and do these things and then come and we shall teach thee some of the strange facts of knowledge”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: narrated by ibn al-Sini and abu Nu’aym in their book “al-Riyaada”, and ibn ‘Abd al-Baar from the hadith of ‘Abd Allah ibn al-Miswar forwarded (Mursal) and it is very weak

- Hadith related by Anas: “As long as the learned men associate not with the rulers, they are the deputies of the Apostles of Allah over His servants. But when they associate with rulers they betray the Apostles. Beware, therefore, of them and avoid them”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: narrated by al-‘Uqaili in “al-Du’afaa”, and ibn al-Jawzi in “al-Mawdoo’at”

- Hadith: “The Prophet was consulted concerning a man of much faith and many sins and another who was steadfast in worship but had little faith, he said, “There is none without sin. But anyone who is intelligent by nature and has faith will not suffer from sin, because whenever he sins he will repent and ask forgiveness. He will then be forgiven and left enough virtue wherewith he will enter Paradise”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: narrated by al-Tirmizi al-Hakeem in “al-Nawadir” from the hadith of Anas with a dark/gloomy chain (Isnad Muzlim)

- Hadith: “Verily among the things, of which you have been given the least, are faith and patience. Whoever has been given his share of these two would not care what he had missed of night prayer and day fasting”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: I found no base/source for it (Lam Aqif Lahu ‘ala Asl). Ibn ‘abd al-Baar narrated it from the hadith of Mu’az "Allah did not provide anything scarcer than faith, and did not divide anything between people scarcer than tolerance"

- Hadith: “Those who have been most apprehensive in this world will, on the day of resurrection, be the most secure, while those who have wept most will laugh most, and those who have been saddest will be the happiest”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: I found no base for it (Lam Ajid Lahu Aslan)

- Hadith: “The execration of Allah and all the angels is upon him who will deceive my people.” It was then asked, “O Apostle of Allah! Who will deceive your people?” The Apostle replied, “He who will introduce an innovation and will lead men to follow it”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: narrated by al-Darqutni in “al-Afraad” from the hadith of Anas with a very weak chain

- Hadith: “Verily Allah has an angel who cries out daily saying, ‘He who violates the sunnah of the Apostle of Allah will not enjoy the benefit of his intercession’”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: I found no base for it (Lam Ajid Lahu Aslan)

- Hadith: “Verily the mosque will shrink when people spit on its courtyard just as the piece of skin will shrink when it is placed over the fire”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: I found no base for it (Lam Ajid Lahu Aslan)

- Hadith: “We used to eat roasted meat, and the prayer is called, so we’d wipe our fingers against the pebbles and rub them with the earth, then we do the Takbir ”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: Narrated from the hadith of ‘Abdallah ibn Harith ibn Juz’, and I did not see it from the hadith of Abu Huraira

- Hadith: “A sure sign of weakness in man’s learning is his fondness for water during the act of purification”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: I found no base for it (Lam Ajid Lahu Aslan)

- Hadith: “An ablution upon ablution is like light upon light”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: I found no base for it (Lam Ajid Lahu Aslan)

- Hadith of ‘Aisha: “Several people gathered outside the gate of Prophet of Allah (Salah Allah ‘Alaihi wa Salam) and he went out to meet them … [so] I saw him gaze, into the water-vessel and fix his hair and beard”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: Narrated by ibn ‘Ady and he said a Rejected (Munkar) hadith

- Hadith: “[The Prophet would] start when cutting the nails with the index finger of the right hand and finish with the thumb, and for the left hand he worked from the little finger to the thumb”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: I found no base for it (Lam Ajid Lahu Aslan), and abu ‘abdallah al-Maazri rejected it in his reply on al-Ghazali, and replied on him with roughness because of it

- Hadith: “Dyeing of the hair black is the sign of the people of Hell”, and in another version “… it is the sign of al-Kufar (the disbelievers)”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: narrated by al-Tabari and al-Hakim from the hadith of ibn ‘Omar, but with the term “al-Kafir” instead, and ibn Abi Hatim said: Rejected (Munkar)

- Hadith: “Yellow is the color with which Muslims dye their beards, and red is that with which Believers dye theirs”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: Narrated by al-Tabari and al-Hakim but using the singular form from the hadith of ibn ‘Umar and ibn Abi Hatim said: Rejected (Munkar)

- Hadith: “O Abu Hurairah! Enjoin the Worship upon your family, for Allah will bring you provision from a place you do not reckon upon”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: I found no base for it (Lam Aqif Lahu ‘ala Asl)

- Hadith: “Two men of my people will perform the Worship and their bowing and their prostration will be one (the same), but between their two Worships there will be what there is between heaven and earth”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: Narrated by ibn al-Mujbr in “al-‘Aql” from the hadith of Abu Ayub al-Ansari similar to it, and it is fabricated. Al-Harith ibn Usamah narrated it in his Musnad from the way of ibn al-Mujbr

- Hadith: “Talking in the mosque devours good works as cattle devour grass”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: I found no base/source for it (Lam Aqif Lahu ‘ala Asl)

- Hadith: “The prohibition of safn, “the raising of the foot,” and safd, “fettering,” in the Worship”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: Razin referred/attributed it to al-Tirmizi, but I did not find it there or anywhere else, but it mention by Ashab Al-Ghareeb such as ibn al-Atheer in “al-Nihaya”. And Sa’id ibn Mansour narrated that ibn Mas’oud saw a man Safan or Safnan his feet so he said: that [man] has missed the Sunnah

- Hadith: “Let not any one of you enter upon the Worship while he is frowning, and let not any one of you enter upon the Worship while he is angry”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: I did not find it

- Hadith: “Whenever a creature stands up for the Worship, with his inclination, his face and his heart towards Allah, he departs innocent as he was the day his mother bore him”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: I did not find it

- Hadith: “Allah –all Mighty- said: There is no god but Allah (La Illah Ila Allah) is My fortress”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: Narrated by al-Hakim in ‘al-Tareekh”, and abu Nu’aim in “al-Hilia” from the way of Ahl Albayt from the hadith of Ali with a very weak chain (Isnad). And what Abu Mansour al-Daylami said that it is a firm hadith is rejected on him (Mardood ‘Alayhi).

- Hadith: “O Allah, restore the shepherd and the flock!”
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: I found no base for it (Lam Aqif Lahu ‘ala Asl), and the author explained/interpreted it as the heart and the limbs.

- Hadith: “Whenever a creature stands up for the Worship, Allah raises the veil between Himself and His creature, and meets him face to face, and angels from before his shoulders to the firmament stand worshipping with his Worship and say, ‘Amin’ to his supplication, while righteousness from the clouds of the sky is rained upon the worshipper into the parting of his hair, and a crier calls out, ’Did this communing one know the One he is communing with, he would not turn, and the doors of heaven are open to those who worship-- and Allah makes His creature who worships Him excel His angels in beauty”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: I did not find it

- Hadith: “Allah said, ‘My creature is not saved from Me except by the payment of what I prescribed upon him.’ ”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: I did not find it

- Hadith: “We used to recite the Praise (Nusabih) behind the Messenger of Allah in the Bowing and the Prostration by tens”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: I did not find a source/basis (Lam Ajid lahu Aslan) for it in the hadith that was before it, and in it: “… in his Bowing ten Tasbihat, and in his Prostration ten Tasbihat”.

- Hadith: “There is no one who fasts the first Thursday in Rajab and then performs a Worship between the first Evening Worship and the nightfall, of twelve rak’ahs, separating every two rak’ahs with a Salutation, reciting in each rak’ah the Fatihat al-Kitab once, and, ‘Truly, We sent it down on the Night of Decree’ (chapter 97) three times, and, ‘Say, He is Allah, One’ (chapter 112) twelve times, and then, when he finishes his Worship, asks the Blessing for me seventy times, saying, ‘O Allah, bless Muhammad, the unlettered Prophet, and his family!’ and then performs a Prostration, and, while in prostration say, ‘Praiseworthy, Holy, Lord of the angels and the spirit!’ and then raises his head and says, seventy times, ‘O Lord,! Forgive and have mercy and pass over what Thou knowest! Verily Thus art the Most Mighty and the Most Wise and Kind!’ and then performs another Prostration and says in it what is similar to that which he said in the first Prostration, and then makes request for what he needs, in his Prostration, but will have it performed”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: in Salat al-Rag'aib was mentioned by Razeen in his book and it is a fabricated tradition

- Hadith: “Whoever obtains wealth and has not come to me has neglected me”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: Narrated by ibn 'Ady and al-Darqutni in "Gara'ib Malik" and ibn Hiban in "al-Du'afaa" and al-Khateeb in the narrators through Malik from the hadith of ibn 'Umar "Whoever performs pilgrimage (Hajj) and does not visit me then he has neglected me", and ibn al-Jawzi mentioned it in "al-Mawdoo'at". Ibn al-Nagaar narrates in the History of Medina from the hadith of Anas "Whomsoever from my Ummah obtains wealth, and does not come to visit me, then he would have no excuse"

- Hadith: “The high status (Fadl) of [the verse]: Indeed Allah has fulfilled His messenger's truthful vision [48:27]”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: I did not find any hadith that specifies it, however in the status of Surat Al-Fath (chapter 48) is what was narrated by abu al-shaykh in a book from the hadith of Ubai ibn Ka'b "whoever reads surat al-Fath then as if he had attended the opening/conquest of Mecca with prophet Muhammed (Salah Allah 'Alaihi wa Salam)" and it is a fabricated tradition.

- Hadith: “Honor/Dignify (Akrimu) bread”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: Narrated by al-Bazaar, al-Tabari, and ibn Qani' from the hadith of 'Abd Allah ibn Umm Hiram with a void/false chain (Isnad Baatil) and ibn al-Jawzi mentioned it in his "Mawdoo'at"

- Hadith: “Whoever [offers something to his brother that] coincides with what his brother desires, Allah will forgive [his sins for] him. And whoever pleases his believing brother then he has pleased Allah –all Mighty-”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: Narrated by al-Bazaar and al-Tabari from the hadith of abu al-Dardaa' "whoever wafaq (instead of saadaf in the previous narration, both having similar meanings) with a desire of his brother he will [have his sins] be forgiven". Ibn al-Jawzi said: a fabricated tradition. Narrated by ibn Hiban and al-'Uqaili in "al-Du'afaa" from the hadith of Abu Bakr al-Sideeq "whoever pleases a believer then he has pleased Allah …" and al-'Uqaili said void with no basis (Baatil La 'Asla Lahu)

- Hadith Jaber: “Whoever pleases and delights his brother by feeding him what he loves, Allah will write for him a thousand thousand (i.e. million) good deeds, erase a thousand thousand (million) of his bad deeds, raise him a thousand thousand (million) levels, and Allah will feed him [in return] from three Jannahs (paradises/heavens): Jannat al-Firdaws, Jannat Aden, and Jannat al-Khuld”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: ibn al-Jawzi mentioned it in his "Mawdoo'at" from the narration of Muhammed ibn Nu'aim from ibn al-Zubair from Jaber, and Ahmad ibn Hanbal said this is a Baatil Kazib (a lie void and falsehood)

- Hadith: “When a man brings/carries a Turfah (joke or extraordinary present) from the market to his family, it is like bringing them a charitable gift (sadaqah)”.
Al-Hafiz al-Iraqi said: narrated by al-Khara’ti with a very weak chain, and narrated by ibn ‘Ady in “al-Kamil”. And ibn al-Jawzi said: a fabricated tradition

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Haitham Hamdan
06-18-2007, 10:07 PM
As always ... great effort brother Mahmoud.
Jazakallhu khairan.