Need answers from converts

Dear sister Peace be on you!

The Quran is the revelation sent by Allah to Prophet Muhammad through Gabrial which was word to word reproduced by the Prophet and was immediately written down by the companions. There were other revealations to Prophet which is known as Hadith Qudsi but it was not written down immediately. Infact Prophet forbid anything to be written down except for Quran (so it should not mingle down with Quran). Later once the companions started to identify the difference between Quranic revelations and other revelations not to be included in Quran then Prophet permitted them to write those seperately. As we know that today as Hadith (which also include Hadith Qudsi).

Hadith is divided into 3 broad catogries: (1) The agreed upon or the Muthafiq Ella, (2) Sahih (right) Hadith (3) Zaeef (weak) hadith.

The Zaeaf Hadith is also divided in to 6 catogries:

(1) Suspended or Mullaeq Hadith - regarding which the chain of narrators is not complete till end.

(2) Interrupted Hadith - One in which down the chain of narrators one or more than one narrators are not trust worthy.

(3) Mursal or incomplete Hadith - which has not been narrated completely and the narrator forgot some part of it.

(4) Musaf Hadith - Which has got some error in the sanad or the some principles have been violated while collecting that hadith by the one who is compling the hadith.

(5) Gharib Hadith - A hadith which has been narrated by only one companion of Prophet and the text has some iota of doubt.

(6) Mooduh or Forged Hadith - Although some scholars don't treat it in the category of Zaeef hadith and take it seperately. These are those Hadiths which are either fabricated by the muslims or non-muslims or newly converts from other religions who mistakenly narrated form the Israelities.

You are right that there has to be no SAHIH (Correct or right) hadith to be contradicting with Quran. If some Hadith contradicts then it is not to be taken as Sahih. This was one of the principle involved in judging the correctness of hadith but not the only one.

Shams Zaman

Justice_4_All,

The translation that was recommended to me and seems to be more accurate (according to my husband who is American, but fluent in Arabic) is the one by Yusuf Ali.  It was the translation given to my husband by his Arabic professors.  If you have questions about translations I'm sure he would be glad to translate something for you if your husband cannot explain well enough in English.  But do try Yusuf Ali's translation.  I found one at the local library.  They had several copies.

Hope this helps.

Melody

email you if you would like to talk.  I recently converted (reverted) myself. 

Assalam-alaikum Br Shams Zaman

Thankyou for your above post.

Could you please let me know where to find these 300 or more Hadith Qudsi. Even amongst Bukhari and Muslim it is hard to make sense of some of the hadith. I hope I am not offending anyone by writing this, but sometimes I feel very bad after reading some of the hadith and some translations of the Qur'an. For example I recenty read surah "Rahman" (which I have always enjoyed reading) in a translation by At TAbari, Al Qurtubi and Ibn Kathir, and I have been sick with the explicit explanations provided. My whole day was spoilt instead of feeling good whenever I read Surah Rahman. I worry that such translations may put off some sincere readers who are interested in learning about Islam.

Now I am reading a very good translation sent to me by the Saudi embassy which mainly uses Yusuf Ali's translation. Anyone interested in getting this can call the Saudi embassy in your country and request them to mail you a copy and they do it happily.