Friday, April 19, 2024

If Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) allowed followers to write a hadith, why didn’t Abu Bakar (RA) and Umar (RA) collect hadith during their rules?

It is documented in several hadith books that the Prophet had prohibited the scribing of anything from him except the Quran:

Abu Said al-Khudri said, Ishaq ibn Isa told me that Abdul Rahman ibn Zaid told us that his father said about Ata ibn Yasar who said that Abu Hurayrah said: We were sitting down writing what we heard from the prophet. He entered the room and asked us: What are you writing? We said: We are writing what we hear from you. He said: Another book next to the book of Allah? We said: It is what we hear from you. He said: Then write the book of Allah, uphold the book of Allah, no other books but the book of Allah, uphold the book of Allah. Abu Hurayrah said: So we collected all that we wrote and burnt it. Then we asked the prophet: Can we talk about you? He said: Yes you can and feel no shame of it, and whoever lies about me deliberately his seat in hell will be secured. Abu Hurayrah said: Can we talk about Bani Israel? He said: Yes you can and feel no shame of it… (Musnad Ahmad, Number 10611)


The Prophet said: Do not write down anything of me except the Quran. Whoever writes other than that should destroy it. (La taktabu anni ghair-al-Quran; wa mun kataba anni ghair-al-Quran falyamhah). (Saheeh Muslim)


The Prophet said: Do not write from me anything except the Quran and whosoever has written anything from me other than the Quran should erase it. (Saheeh Bukhari, reported by Abu Sa`id Al-Khudri)


The Prophet said: I leave for you the Quran alone; you shall uphold it. (Muslim 15/19, nu 1218; ibn Majah 25/84, Abu dawud 11/56)


The Prophet said: Do not write down anything of me except the Quran. Let whoever writes other than that destroy it.(Musnad by Ahmed ibn Hanbal)


The companions of the Prophet asked him permission to take down his sayings. They were refused. (Tirmizi; Es-Sunen, quoted by Darimi)

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