Spreading Fabricated hadeeths

My last two days at home before I came back to Kuantan was spent much going out. We went to XTRA to shop and to one of ayah’s friend’s daughter’s wedding at BBU. The part i liked most was the time spent in the car... reading.

I had brought along a book I found in ayah’s library titled “Himpunan Hadits-Hadits Lemah dan Palsu” (hadits…that shows how old the book is or prolly in indonesian) by A. Yazid Qasim Koho which finally caught my interest. If it weren’t for the title, I wouldn’t have even glanced at the content of the plain, faded, hard cover book with yellowed pages (talk about not judging a book by it’s cover,hehe).

Why am I so interested in this particular book? Since entering Kuantan campus, I have gotten to know that many well-known hadeeths that we’d learnt and quote ever so often are fabricated and have no basis whatsoever in the Deen.

For example, the hadeeth “Seek knowledge even to China” or “Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave” or “Jihad yang paling utama adalah melawan hawa nafsu” or the one about the Islamic months, how Rejab is Allah’s month, Syaaban being Rasululha’s and Ramadhan is the Ummahh’s month.. I even learnt some of these as hujahs or dalils for Islamic teachings in Islamic lectures at school and matriculation centre.

I remember reading about an ulama’ (must find out who he was) who told his son to memorize all the fabricated and dhaif hadeeths so that when he came across a hadeeth, he’d be able to identify whether it was fabricated or not. I wanted to give his advice a try, at least read 'em la.

So, on the way to XTRA, I immersed myself in the book. Some of the fabricated hadeeths are sooo absurd that I couldn’t help laughing. Whenever I came across an interesting one, I’d read it aloud and everyone couldn’t stop laughing too.

Ok, here’s some that I found reaaally bizarre;

• ‘Barangsiapa yang memelihara ayam putih di rumahnya maka syaitan
  dan sihir tidak akan dekat padanya’
  (DrLola: prolly the white chicken seller was having a hard day with sales)
• ‘Barangsiapa di rumahnya ada seekor kambing, maka rumahnya itu ada berkatnya’
  (DrLola: if one goat, one berkat, i’d be showered with blessings if I have a
  million goats. Maybe I should become a goat seller and sell its produce? Goat’s
  milk laku ape?)
• ‘Barangsiapa yang memakai sandal yang berwarna kuning, maka sedikit susahnya’
  (DrLola: this man must have tried to justify his many yellow shoe collections.)
• ‘Barangsiapa yang memberi makan kepada saudaranya sesama muslim sesuai dengan seleranya maka Allah haramkan api neraka ke atasnya’
  (DrLola: I’d like a chocolate chip ice cream please?)
• ‘Solat dengan pakai serban itu (ganjarannya) sama dengan 25 solat yang tidak pakai serban dan satu kali solat Juma’at dengan pakai serban itu (ganjarannya) sama dengan 70 kali solat Jumat dengan tidak pakai serban , dan mengerjakan solat dengan pakai serban itu ganjarannya sama dengan melakukan 10,000 kebaikan’
  (DrLola: I wonder who profits from this fabricated hadeeth?)
• ‘Wahai Ali, engkau adalah saudaraku di dunia dan di akhirat’
  (DrLola: must be some Shiite guy who created this)
• ‘Hutang itu dapat mengurangi nilai-nilai agama dan martabat (seseorang)’
  (DrLola: I can just imagine the tradesman saying it to his customer who wishes to berhutang)
• ‘Janganlah kamu memotong daging dengan menggunakan pisau kerana yang demikian itu adalah perbuatan orang asing (orang yang bukan bangsa Arab)’
  (DrLola: habes tu nak potong ngan ape?)
• 'Barangsiapa mempunyai tiga anak, kemudian dia tidak memberi nama salah seorang diantara mereka Muhammad maka sesungguhnya dia termasuk orang yang jahil’
  (DrLola: yeah..right,what if they only have daughters? What then?)

Those were funny, yeah, but here are some famous ones we always use (grave and serious tone);

§ ‘Bekerjalah untuk penghidupan duniamu seolah-olah engkau akan hidup
selama-lamanya dan beramallah seolah-olah engkau akan mati besok’
-Nasiruddin Al-Baaniy said: la asla lahu (there is no basis for it) and said
it was the saying of a sahabah, Abdullah bin Umar.
-DrLola feels cheated and lousy for being so ignorant. She’s used this dalil many times before.

§ ‘Sesungguhnya di dalam syurga itu ada satu pintu yang dinamakan Dhuha, tidak
akan masuk melalui pintu ini melainkan orang yang selalu tekun melakukan solat
Dhuha’
-Diriwayatkan oleh Al-Khathiib dan dikatakan bahawa dalam sanadnya ada rawi yang bernama Ibnu Syaahbib yang suka meriwayatkan hadith yang bathil.
-DrLola thinks she learnt this one in standard 4

§ ‘Aku telah menjemur air di panas matahari untuk Rasulullah saw kemudian belaiu
berkata : Janganlah engkau lakukan demikian wahai Humairaa kerana yang demikian itu bias menyebabkan penyakit sopak’
-Hadis ini matruk kerana ada rawinya yang pendusta dan majhul
-DrLola’s remembers learning this hadeeth in primary school in feqah class for dalil of air musyammas.

The Prophet alaihissolatuwassalam mentioned “ Barangsiapa yang mengadakan dusta atasku dengan sengaja maka hendaklah dia siapkan tempat duduknya di api neraka” [Hadis mutawatir, diriwayatkan oleh Imam Bukhari , Muslim dan lain-lainnya]

Coming up if i have time;
§ Sebab-sebab timbulnya hadis palsu
§ Hukum meriwayatkan hadis-hadis palsu

*For two days, I was so wrapped up in the book that Hammad asked me, “Kak Yang suka eh hadis palsu?”. Astaghfirullahalazim. Sheesh this brother of mine. Ke situ plak pikirnya.