Ali Shukri Amin

Reddit reply in r/extomatoes: a prevalent myth among some nonmuslims is that — August 2, 2024 | Ali Shukri Amin

Original discussion: a prevalent myth among some nonmuslims is that.

There is no original copy of the sahifah. If you had studied Dr. Muhammad Hamidullah's research on this, you'd know he was operating on a copy of an original and cross comparing the mutun/asanid with narrations in Musnad Ahmad.

Being dismissive is not revering the tradition. It just means orientalist accusations never go answered and Muslims that hear the accusations have no answers to the shubuhat. The issue is not their accusation lacking evidence, it's that they don't trust the Muslim traditional evidence - particularly the lack of substantiating evidence for the ilm al-rijal tradition and lack of documentary evidence at the tabi'i level.

If these accusations can be so easily refuted by a beginner student of knowledge, I would sincerely advise you to respond to Joshua Little and Motzki so that their criticisms of hadith literature can be put to rest, which would also solve a lot of the revisionism of the Saudi Project 2030.

It's not an inferiority complex. You are just ignorant of their critiques and haven't tried to solve any of them. You clearly have not studied hadith in an Islamic seminary or dealt with the academic doubts. The most serious academic to deal with it was M. M. Al-Azami and that was decades ago. The few that are there are Ramon Harvey or Jonathan Brown (both of whom I imagine you disapprove of).

Pretending that they don't have criticisms only works if you just outright ignore what they are producing. Then you face the risk of riddah when someone independently goes and sees you are being intellectually lazy/dishonest.

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