This blog reveals how we uncovered Al-A'mash's deliberate practice of taking hadith directly from Hisham ibn Urwa while fabricating alternative chains of transmission. The bewitchment narrative serves as definitive proof of this systematic manipulation, exposing significant flaws in hadith transmission that traditional criticism missed.
The hadith appears to be a fabricated narrative designed to encourage Ayat al-Kursi recitation, leveraging a supernatural encounter to motivate spiritual practice through a potentially invented transmission chain.
Jewish fruit allegory traveled from Talmudic sources through Ibn Mas'ud's companion, before Qatada elevated it to prophetic status, fabricating chains of transmission and creating multiple attestations to legitimize the borrowed wisdom.
Evidence shows that the so-called canonical Quran transmitter, Abū ʿAmr, deliberately altered the divine Quranic recitation to "correct" what he perceived as grammatical mistakes. Al-Ṭabarī outright rejected readings that were later declared divine—effectively branding one of Islam’s most esteemed scholars a kāfir.
A famous Islamic hadith prophecy about conquering Constantinople, long attributed to Mehmed II's 1453 victory, originated as motivational propaganda during an earlier failed Umayyad siege in 717 CE.
This refutation highlights that Muhammad, while chosen as a messenger of God, was not granted knowledge of the unseen, particularly future events, in-line with 7:188, and 46:9.
The alleged prophecy of a thirty-year caliphate followed by monarchy emerges from a hadith whose sole transmitter, Sa'id ibn Juhman, was extensively criticized by classical scholars, undermining its authenticity.
Awf ibn Malik likely fabricated the hadith, using his firsthand experiences, long life, and esteemed status to retroactively align personal observations with events, presenting them as prophetic predictions.
ʿAbbād ibn Yaʿqūb led a double life, appearing as a trustworthy Sunni narrator while secretly holding and transmitting Twelver Shi'i beliefs, raising serious questions about early hadith collection methodology's reliability.
This fabricated hadith claims that the idol of Daus would reemerge near the end of times. However, we find that this prophecy was later back-projected onto the Prophet by Ibn Shihab Al-Zuhri.