Islam & Christianity the same tradition ?

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  1. The Wyrd of Gawd

    The Wyrd of Gawd Well-Known Member

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    Are you serious? The Bukhari hadiths were written over 230 years after Mohammed supposedly died but the characters are yakking as if they were there. Don't you know that they are fiction?
     
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    The Wyrd of Gawd Well-Known Member

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    If your favorite ethnocentric religious character exists, why does he hide from everyone? Maybe he is imaginary since he hasn't ever done anything real since the first con man started lies that he exists.
     
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    I’lll relay to you some crucial knowledge:

    1. The pre-Islamic Arabs were masters at memorization. They were not a literate people, but a poetic one (poetry is all they had), which is why they could relate long lines of poems in one long sitting. This a good reason why millions of people today have memorized the entire Qur’an: Arabic is a poetic language with a particular rhythm.

    2. The word “Hadith” was not born after the Prophet died. The pre-Islamic Arabs had hadiths about their own notable tribesmen, but it was only during and after the Prophet’s death that the Hadith became exclusively synonymous with him. Of course, Shiites have hadiths related to the sayings of Ali, one of the Prophet’s companions.

    3. There is a convoluted science that went into determining the authenticity of hadiths, and there is a range regarding their authenticity (from hasan “good” to deef “weak.”) The level of their reliability is based on a number of factors, like for instance how many human chains a particular Hadith may or may not have. Scholars have been studying hadiths for centuries, so to claim that they are all fake is complete and utter nonsense.
     
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    But I don’t submit to an “ethnocentric religious character.”
     

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