Light On the Muhammadan Sunnah Or Defence of the Hadith

Chapters

1. Publisher’s Foreword
2. Dedication
3. Dr. Taha Husayn's Foreword
4. The Author’s Response
5. Definition of the Book
6. Narrating Hadith Through Denotation:
7. A General Word:
8. Introduction of the Second Edition 13
9. For Truth and History
10. Introduction To the Third Edition
11. Al-sunnah
12. Position of Sunnah in Religion:
13. Companions and Hadith Relating:
14. To Lie Against Messenger of Allah:
15. Fabricating Lies Against the Prophet After His Death:
16. The Companions Criticizing Each Other:
17. Narrating Hadith By Meaning and Disagreement Among Scholars:
18. Forms of Tashahhud:
19. Word of Monotheism:
20. Examples On Narrating Hadith By Meaning Hadith of Islam and Faith:
21. Hadith of Ali’s Sahifah:
22. Disadvantage of Narrating Hadith Through Meaning
23. Detriment of Narration Through Meaning Linguistically and Rhetorically
24. Narration in Islam
25. Composition of Hadith and Its Causes
26. Detriment of Tales and Talebearer:
27. The Abbasid State:
28. The Righteous Fabricators
29. Ka’b Al-ahbar: 245
30. Wahb Ibn Munabbih:
31. Abd Allah Ibn Sallam:
32. Ka’b and Umar:
33. Ka’b’s Cunning and Stratagem:
34. Some Companions Relating From Jewish Rabbis:
35. Political Stratagem
36. Ka'b and Mu'awiyah:
37. Masihiyyat in Hadith
38. Abu Hurayrah
39. Shaykh Al-mudirah:
40. His Imposture (tadlis)
41. First Narrator Accused in Islam:
42. His Reporting From Ka'b Al-ahbar:
43. Abu Hurayrah Follows the Umayyads:
44. Fabrication of Traditions Against Ali
45. Narrations of Great Companions
46. Ambiguous Traditions
47. The Twelve Caliphs:
48. Al-dajjal (impostor) 447
49. Tadwin Al-qur'an:
50. Revelation Scribes:
51. A Meditative Pause:
52. Tadwin Al-hadith: 468
53. Writing of Hadith Was Forcibly Done:
54. Stages of Changeability of Tadwin:
55. Effect of Delay in Tadwin:
56. The Shiah and Writing of Hadith
57. Parts of Khabar:
58. Best Care Was Given To Sanad:
59. Famous Hadith Books
60. Malik and His Muwatta’:
61. Al-bukhari and His Book
62. Muslim and His Book
63. Are Sahihayn Containing Most Correct Traditions?
64. Abu Dawud
65. Al-tirmidhi
66. Al-nasa’i
67. Musnad Ahmad
68. Ahmad Reporting From an Apostate Companion:
69. Jarh and Ta’dil
70. Reliability of the Companions
71. Adopting Reliability of All the Sahabah
72. Hypocrites Among Sahabah and Surat Al-tawbah:
73. Sorcery Hadith Is of Ahad:
74. Asking For Hadith Without Fiqh (and What the Traditionists Nicknamed With)
75. Conclusion
76. The Greatest Calamity Inflicted Islam:
77. Aspects of Preponderance Contain Contradiction:
78. Rules and Principles
79. Original Rules of Rituals and Transactions:
80. Bibliography