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How can women, donkeys and dogs interrupt Salah/Prayers ? Bukhari 489, Muslim 512

Question: Can you explain this hadith ?

Aisha reported: That which invalidates prayer was mentioned in her presence and they said, “Prayer is invalidated by a dog, a donkey, and a woman.” Aisha said, “You have turned us into dogs! I have seen the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, praying while I was between him and the direction of prayer, lying on the bed. If I needed something, I would not like to face him directly while he prayed, so I would slip away quietly.”
In another narration, Aisha said, “When the Prophet wanted to prostrate, he would nudge me my legs and I would pull them back.”

Source: Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 489, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 512

Answer:

Praise be to God,

Imam An-Nawawi said:

قَالَ مَالِكٌ وَأَبُو حَنِيفَةَ وَالشَّافِعِيُّ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمْ وَجُمْهُورُ الْعُلَمَاءِ مِنَ السَّلَفِ وَالْخَلَفِ لَا تَبْطُلُ الصَّلَاةُ بِمُرُورِ شَيْءٍ مِنْ هَؤُلَاءِ وَلَا مِنْ غَيْرِهِمْ وَتَأَوَّلَ هَؤُلَاءِ هَذَا الْحَدِيثَ عَلَى أَنَّ الْمُرَادَ بِالْقَطْعِ نَقْصُ الصَّلَاةِ لِشُغْلِ الْقَلْبِ بِهَذِهِ الْأَشْيَاءِ وَلَيْسَ الْمُرَادُ إِبْطَالُهَا

" Malik, Abu Hanifa and Al-Shafi‘i , may Allah be pleased with them and the vast majority of the Scholars from Salaf and Khalaf (early and late) said that the Salah/prayers is not invalidated by the passage of any of them or any others. They concluded that the meaning is that they "will make the prayer imperfect" due to the distraction they cause in people's hearts (occupation of heart by these things).” (Sharah Al-Nawawi 2/266).

All these things mentioned here can disrupt one’s attention. A dog or an ass can become a source of distraction because of their course and loud voice and bad smell And a woman could distract because of her beauty while prayers need full time attention. This is enough to prove that it’s only about being a cause of distraction that women are mentioned with all these things.

Imam Badr al-Din al-'Ayni said:

 

لأن المرأة تغير الفكر فيها والحمار ينهق والكلب يهوش

"..because the woman can distract the mind to think about her, the donkey brays and the dog goes to and fro [barking/agitated].." ( Umdat Al-Qari)

 Allah knows best.

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Re: "I have fabricated things against God.." (Al-Tabari, vol. 6, p. 111)

Did Prophet Muhammad said:

افتريت على الله، وقلت ما لم يقل

"I have fabricated things against God and have imputed to Him words which He has not spoken." ? (Al-Tabari, vol. 6, p. 111)

Response:

About this story, Abu Hayyan al-Andulasi (d. 745 A.H.) mentions; Imam Muhammad bin Ishaq, the compiler of sirah, was asked, he said:

هذا من وضع الزنادقة

‘This is from the fabrication of the heretics.’

And he wrote a book on the issue.”(al-Bahr al-Muhit fil Tafsir, Dar al-Fekr, Beirut, 1420 A.H. vol.7 p.526) 

Where do Ibn Jarir al-Tabari (d. 310/923) claim to be the source of that alleged report?

It is precisely the opposite.

He has only transmitted the story as it was transmitted to him. Al-Tabari mentions the so-called 'Satanic verses' story in his Tarikh as well as an important set of statements in the introduction of his book, which states:

Let him who examines this book of mine know that I have relied, as regards everything I mention therein which I stipulate to be described by me, solely upon what has been transmitted to me by way of reports which I cite therein and traditions which I ascribe to their narrators, to the exclusion of what may be apprehended by rational argument or deduced by the human mind, except in very few cases. This is because knowledge of the reports of men of the past and of contemporaneous views of men of the present do not reach the one who has not witnessed them nor lived in their times except through the accounts of reporters and the transmission of transmitters, to the exclusion of rational deduction and mental inference. Hence, if I mention in this book a report about some men of the past, which the reader of listener finds objectionable or worthy of censure because he can see no aspect of truth nor any factual substance therein, let him know that this is not to be attributed to us but to those who transmitted it to us and we have merely passed this on as it has been passed on to us.(Abu Ja`far Muhammad bin Jarir al-Tabari, Tarikh al-Tabari: Tarikh al-Umam wal-Muluk, 1997, Volume I, Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyyah, Beirut (Lebanon), p. 13.

Orientalists like John Burton, concluded with an original argument:

There existed therefore a compelling theoretical motive for the invention of these infamous hadiths. If it be felt that this has now been demonstrated, there should be no further difficulty in suggesting that those hadiths have no historical basis.(Source)

Ibn Kathir said; ‘All the links of this Tradition are unauthentic and I have found no correct version of this with continuous links.’ (Ibn Kathir in his Tafsir 5/441-442)

Shaukani says, ‘There is nothing true in it and none of its links is proved.’ (Fath al-Qadeer 5/128)

Ibn Jawzi says: ‘This is not correct.’ (Zaad al-Muyassar 4/391)

When Ibn Khuzaimah was asked about it, he said, "This story has been invented by heretics". (Tafsir al-Raazi 11/134)

Baihaqi said; "This story has not been proved to be correct by the rules of reporting". (Tafsir a-Raazi 11/135)

Qazi `Ayad says, "The very fact that this tradition is neither contained in any of the authentic collections of Hadith nor has it been related in an authentic way by authentic reporters shows its weakness". (Al-Shifa 2/125)

Besides them, Imam Razi (in his Tafsir 11/135), Qazi Abu Bakr Ibn al-`Arabi (Al-Shifa 2/126), Alusi (in his Tafsir 13/99) etc. have rejected it altogether.

Source

Allah knows best.

Re: Was the Muslim scientist "Muḥammad ibn Zakariyya Al Razi" an atheist?

The alleged anti religion and anti prophetic views of Al_Razi as claimed by Orientalists and Atheists And Our Detailed Response

Written by Dr Aheed Hassan (Edited)

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According to some atheists, Al-Razi was critical of the idea of prophethood and was an atheist. According to them, his quotations on religion and prophethood are following:

"On what ground do you deem it necessary that God should single out certain individuals [by giving them prophecy], that he should set them up above other people, that he should appoint them to be the people's guides, and make people dependent upon them? "

According to them, looking at the various disagreements between religions and the zeal of their followers he said

"there would be a universal disaster and they would perish in the mutual hostilities and fighting. Indeed, many people have perished in this way, as we can see." If the people of this religion are asked about the proof for the soundness of their religion, they flare up, get angry and spill the blood of whoever confronts them with this question. They forbid rational speculation, and strive to kill their adversaries. This is why truth became thoroughly silenced and concealed"

 According to them,In relation to the Hebrew's God asking of sacrifices, he said that

"This sounds like the words of the needy rather than of the Laudable Self-sufficient One." 

According to them,On the Qur'an, Razi said:

"You claim that the evidentiary miracle is present and available, namely, the Koran. You say: "Whoever denies it, let him produce a similar one." Indeed, we shall produce a thousand similar, from the works of rhetoricians, eloquent speakers and valiant poets, which are more appropriately phrased and state the issues more succinctly. They convey the meaning better and their rhymed prose is in better meter. ... By God what you say astonishes us! You are talking about a work which recounts ancient myths, and which at the same time is full of contradictions and does not contain any useful information or explanation. Then you say: "Produce something like it?""

According to these people and especially atheists, Razi wrote three books on religion,The Prophets' Fraudulent Tricks”, “The Stratagems of Those Who Claim to Be Prophets”, and “On the Refutation of Revealed Religions” and the anti religions views of Al_Razi, described above are taken from these books.

The orientalists and atheists exaggerate historical figures and facts and try to distort them.

Response:

The reality is that according to al-Biruni's Bibliography of Razi (Risāla fī Fihrist Kutub al-Rāzī), Razi wrote two "heretical books": "Fī al-Nubuwwāt (On Prophecies) and "Fī Ḥiyal al-Mutanabbīn (On the Tricks of False Prophets).

The very important thing to note is that the the book The Prophets' Fraudulent Tricks”مخارق الانبیاء written by Al_ Razi as claimed by orientalists and atheists, is not mentioned by Al_Razi and instead of it, Al_Biruni mentions a book written by Razi which he names "Fī al-Nubuwwāt (On Prophecies).This is the first controversy in atheists arguments against Razi. So the existence of the book مخارق الانبیاء( Makhariq al_ Anbia) written by Al_ Razi is very doubtful and not supported by an authentic historical source. Even if this book is proved authentic,the meanings of its name is not the one as quoted by atheists.According to Biruni, the book named "Fī al-Nubuwwāt (On Prophecies) "was claimed to be against religions" and the second book "Fī Ḥiyal al-Mutanabbīn (On the Tricks of False Prophets) "was claimed as attacking the necessity of the prophets."

The second and most important thing is that the alleged book مخارق الانبیاء written by Al_Razi was mistranslated by orientalists and atheists as . “The Prophets' Fraudulent Tricks”,and people were misguided on the basis of this delibere mistranslation.The reality is that the actual meaning of the alleged book مخارق الانبیاء ( Makhariq al_ Anbia) written by Razi is "The miraculous acts of Prophets" as the word مخارق( Makhariq) in Arabic means the happenings against nature or unusual happenings.This word never means the "Fardulent" in Arabic. But the orientalists and atheists mistranslated it into Fradulent tricks of Prophets and tried to misguide people on the basis of it that Razi was an atheist or a free thinker..

Some historians, such as Paul Kraus and Sarah Stroumsa, accept that the extracts found in Abu Hatim's book were either said by Razi during a debate or were quoted from a now lost work. They suggest that this lost work is either his famous al-ʿIlm al-Ilāhī or another shorter independent work called Makharīq al-Anbiyāʾ (The Prophets' Fraudulent Tricks). The alleged anti_prophetic and anti_religious views of Al_Razi are taken from excerpts of a book named "Alaam_Al_Nubwah"( اعلام النبوۃ) said to be written by an extremist Ismaili missionary Abu Hatim in which Abu Hatim quotes excerpts from the book of an alleged atheist whom some people think is Abubakr Al_Razi. Abu Hatim, however, did not explicitly mention Razi by name in his book, but referred to his interlocutor simply as the mulḥid (atheist). According to the debate with Abu Hatim, Razi denied the validity of prophecy or other authority figures, and rejected prophetic miracles. He also directed a scathing critique on revealed religions and the miraculous quality of the Quran. According to people accusing Al_Razi of atheism, Abu Hatim,the Ismaili extremist missionary student Ḥamīd al-dīn Karmānī (d. after 411AH/1020CE),wrote a book named Al-Aqwal al-dhahabiya, refuting al-Razi's argument against the necessity of revelation.
.The first page of this manuscript is torn out and we don't know the exact name of that atheist whom Abu Hatim is quoting. So we can not say exactly that Abu Hatim was referring to Abu Bakr Al_Razi while quoting that atheist.

The other important thing is that, according to Raghib Al_Sarjani(راغب السرجانی),the books "Fradulent Tricks Of Prophets" and Ḥiyal al-Mutanabbīn (On the Tricks of False Prophets) which are dedicated to Al_Razi are just an imposter and never appear in the writings of any Muslim. So the existence of anti prophetic and anti religions books allegedly written by Al_Razi is challenged and there is no independent proof that Al_Razi wrote these two books. But on the contrary,he wrote two books named "The Man Has A Creator"( ان للعبدخالقا) and "Israr al_Tanzeel Fi_Al_Toheed"(اسرار التنزیل فی التوحید) and these religious books show that Razi was not an atheist but a purely religious polymath.

At this point,consider a very important thing regarding historical facts.Al_Razi was Born in 854 CE in Ray, Persia and died in 932 or 925 CE in Ray, Persia (Iran) and Al_Biruni was born on 4 September 973 , Kath , Khwarezm Afrighid dynasty (modern-day Uzbekistan) and Died on 9 December 1048 (aged 75) in Ghazni, Ghaznavid Empire (modern-day Afghanistan). According to these historical figures, Al_Biruni was born 48 years after death of Al_Razi and if the age at which he obtained Information about Al_ Razi is considered 16,then it is proved that he acquired information about Al_Razi 64 years after the death of Al_Razi. Now the question is that what was the source of Al_Biruni information about Al_Razi. If we consider this fact,we come to know that the views and quotes that are often ascribed to Razi are found in a book written by Abu Hatim al-Razi, called Aʿlām al-nubuwwa (Signs of Prophecy), and not in any extant work of Razi himself. Abu Hatim was an Isma'ili missionary who debated Razi, but whether he has faithfully recorded the views of Razi is disputed.
According to Abdul Latif al-'Abd, Islamic philosophy professor at Cairo University, Abu Hatim and his student, Ḥamīd al-dīn Karmānī (d. after 411AH/1020CE), were Isma'ili extremists who often misrepresented the views of Razi in their works. So both Al_Biruni and Ḥamīd al-dīn Karmānī both born 48 years to hundred years after the death of Al_ Razi narrated their claims about Al_Razi from an extremist Ismaili missionary Abu Hatim al-Razi with whom Al_Razi was in many debates and ismailis had been attacked by Al_Razi many times.
This view is also corroborated by early historians like al-Shahrastani who noted

 "that such accusations should be doubted since they were made by Ismāʿīlīs, who had been severely attacked by Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyā Rāzī".

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