Het neusje van de zalm onder de hadiths
Hier volgt een selectie van sahih, oftewel authentieke, hadiths die episodes uit het leven van Mohammed vertellen. De islam beschouwt hem als de grootste mens die ooit heeft geleefd, en hij was het daar niet mee oneens: hij noemde zichzelf de meester van de kinderen van Adam en voegde er bescheiden aan toe dat hij niet opschepte (Sahih Muslim 2278; Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3615).
De hadiths leggen ook zijn leringen vast, en de goeroe van de islam liet niets aan het toeval over, zelfs niet de meest intieme zaken. Hoe moet je je afvegen nadat je je behoefte hebt gedaan? Met stenen, minstens drie, en nooit met de rechterhand (Sahih Muslim 262). In een oneven aantal (Sahih al-Bukhari 162). Nooit met bot of mest, want dat is voedsel voor de djinn (Sahih al-Bukhari 3860). De polytheïsten van zijn tijd hadden het al opgemerkt:
“Jullie Apostel leert jullie over alles, zelfs over uitwerpselen.”— Opmerking tegen Salman al-Farsi, die antwoordde: “Ja” (Sahih Muslim 262)
Het werd tijd. Met slechts 86 miljard neuronen had de mensheid zo’n ingewikkelde procedure nooit zelf kunnen bedenken. Moslims noemen het tijdperk vóór de islam de Jahiliyya, het Tijdperk van Onwetendheid. Nu weten we waarvan.
Jezus sprak alleen over de latrine om te zeggen dat wat daar terechtkomt niemand onrein maakt: wat een mens onrein maakt, komt uit zijn hart (Marcus 7:18-23). Daarna ging hij weer verder met het prediken van naastenliefde. Met alle respect voor de Zoon van God: er is meer in het leven dan liefde. Zes eeuwen later brachten Allah en zijn Boodschapper het gesprek terug naar praktische zaken. Mohammed blijft verreweg de meest pragmatische profeet die de God van Abraham ooit heeft gezonden.
Pas deze hadiths toe en je leven kan zomaar veranderen: Mohammed was een geduchte lifecoach. Maar verwacht geen spiritualiteit. Je vindt er nuchtere instructies en dreigementen, de specialiteit van het huis. Ook hier is het contrast met Jezus totaal. Zou Mohammed de Antichrist kunnen zijn? Hij zou een overtuigende kandidaat zijn. Volgens de eerste brief van Johannes “loochent” de antichrist “de Vader en de Zoon” (1 Johannes 2:22), en Allah “verwekt niet en is niet verwekt” (Koran 112:3). In de 8e eeuw noemde Johannes van Damascus de islam al “een voorloper van de Antichrist”.
Het origineel van elke hadith is na te gaan op sunnah.com.
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“'A'isha (Allah be pleased with her) reported that Salim, the freed slave of Abu Hadhaifa, lived with him and his family in their house. She (i. e. the daughter of Suhail came to Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) and said: Salim has attained puberty as men attain, and he understands what they understand, and he enters our house freely, I, however, perceive that something (rankles) in the heart of Abu Hudhaifa, whereupon Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) said to her: Suckle him and you would become unlawful for him, and (the rankling) which Abu Hudhaifa feels in his heart will disappear. She returned and said: So I suckled him, and what (was there) in the heart of Abu Hudhaifa disappeared.”
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Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (Allah her pleased with him) reported that at the Battle of Hanain Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) sent an army to Autas and encountered the enemy and fought with them. Having overcome them and taken them captives, the Companions of Allah's Messenger (may peace te upon him) seemed to refrain from having intercourse with captive women because of their husbands being polytheists. Then Allah, Most High, sent down regarding that: "And women already married, except those whom your right hands possess (iv. 24)" (i. e. they were lawful for them when their 'Idda period came to an end).
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Reported by A'isha (Allah be pleased with her)
I felt jealous of the women who offered themselves to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and said: Then when Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, revealed this:" You may defer any one of them you wish, and take to yourself any you wish; and if you desire any you have set aside (no sin is chargeable to you)" (xxxiii. 51), I ('A'isha.) said: It seems to me that your Lord hastens to satisfy your desire.
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Reported by Jabir (Allah be pleased with him)
“There came a slave and pledged allegiance to Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) on migration; he (the Holy Prophet) did not know that he was a slave. Then there came his master and demanded him back, whereupon Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) said: Sell him to me. And he bought him for two black slaves, and he did not afterwards take allegiance from anyone until he had asked him whether he was a slave (or a free man)”
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“Abu Huraira reported that among two women of the tribe of Hudhail one flung a stone upon the other causing an abortion to her so Allah's Apostle gave judgment that a male or a female slave of best quality be given as compensation.”
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“Anas reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) happened to pass by the people who had been busy in grafting the trees. Thereupon he said: If you were not to do it, it might be good for you. (So they abandoned this practice) and there was a decline in the yield. He (the Holy Prophet) happened to pass by them (and said): What has gone wrong with your trees? They said: You said so and so. Thereupon he said: You have better knowledge (of a technical skill) in the affairs of the world.”
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“Abdullah (b. Mas'ud) reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) who is the most truthful (of the human beings) and his being truthful (is a fact) said: Verily your creation is on this wise. The constituents of one of you are collected for forty days in his mother's womb in the form of blood, after which it becomes a clot of blood in another period of forty days. Then it becomes a lump of flesh and forty days later Allah sends His angel to it with instructions concerning four things, so the angel writes down his livelihood, his death, his deeds, his fortune and misfortune. By Him, besides Whom there is no god, that one amongst you acts like the people deserving Paradise until between him and Paradise there remains but the distance of a cubit, when suddenly the writing of destiny overcomes him and he begins to act like the denizens of Hell and thus enters Hell, and another one acts in the way of the denizens of Hell, until there remains between him and Hell a distance of a cubit that the writing of destiny overcomes him and then he begins to act like the people of Paradise and enters Paradise.”
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“Abu Burda reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: There would come people amongst the Muslims on the Day of Resurrection with as heavy sins as a mountain, and Allah would forgive them and He would place in their stead the Jews and the Christians. (As far as I think), Abu Raub said: I do not know as to who is in doubt. Abu Burda said: I narrated it to 'Umar b. 'Abd al-'Aziz, whereupon he said: Was it your father who narrated it to you from Allah's Apostle (ﷺ)? I said: Yes.”
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It was narrated that Abu Bakrah said: "We were with the Prophet (ﷺ) and the sun became eclipsed. He got up and went to the masjid, dragging his garment in haste. The people stood with him and he prayed two rak'ahs as they usually prayed. When the eclipse ended he addressed us and said 'The sun and the moon are two of the signs of Allah (SWT), with which He strikes fear into His slaves. They do not become eclipsed for the death or birth of anyone. If you see either of them being eclipsed, then pray and supplicate until it removed it from you.'"
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“Whoever changes his religion, kill him.”
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Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'As
“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Command your children to pray when they become seven years old, and beat them for it (prayer) when they become ten years old; and arrange their beds (to sleep) separately.”
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Narrated Jabir
“The Prophet (ﷺ) bought a slave for two slaves.”
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“Jabir b.Abd Allah reported the Prophet (ﷺ) as saying: Gather your children when darkness spreads, or in the evening (according to Musaddad), for the jinn are abroad and seize them.”
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Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas
“The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If you find anyone doing as Lot's people did, kill the one who does it, and the one to whom it is done.”
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Narrated 'Aishah
“That the Prophet (ﷺ) used to cut the hand for a fourth of a Dinar and beyond that.”
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Narrated by Hammam bin Harith
"A guest came and stayed with 'Aishah, and she ordered that he be given a yellow blanket of hers. He had a nocturnal emission on it, and he felt too shy to send it back to her when it had the traces of that emission on it, so he dipped it in water and then sent it to her. 'Aishah said: 'Why did he spoil our garment? It would have been sufficient for him to scrape it off with his finger. I often scraped it (semen) from the garment of the Messenger of Allah with my finger.'"
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It was narrated from Jabir that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “Do not eat with your left hand, for Satan eats with his left hand.”
