Posted: Nov 29, 2010 8:52 pm
Got it in one! Just consider the kiddy fiddling: if Mo didn't do it, the hadiths saying he did are false, if they're right, he was a dirty old man. Take your pick - but since Muslim scholars claim that hundreds of thousands were false, how can anyone be sure any particular remaining one is true?Hugin wrote:Given that the Hadiths contain so much information about Muhammad, if they are not reliable, then we do indeed know very little about Muhammad, and about the beliefs of the early Muslims.