A Review of the Debate between Batalavi and Chakrhalavi — Page 5
5 5 HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD by such a view. After all, it was approximately one hundred to one hundred and fifty years after the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, that the hadith were collected and they are not free from human interpolation. Further, the hadith are victim to doubt and conjecture and are comprised of so few narrations which may be deemed highly authentic that almost no reliable narrations exist at all. Hence, if the hadith were considered a judge over the Holy Quran this would inevitably mean that Islam is nothing more than a heap of conjecture and obviously mere suppositions are of no value. An individual who follows mere conjecture is far below the elevated station of truth. Allah the Exalted says: 1 That is, mere conjecture is incomparable with absolute certainty. Hence, this would necessarily imply that the entire text of the Holy Quran is useless and obsolete and it is not worthy of fol- lowing without the edicts of a judge, that is to say the hadith. Yet the hadith themselves are ill-clad in the garb of conjecture and are not completely free from falsehood. For the naturally inher- ent aspect of conjecture is that it is never truly free from fabri- cation. In this way, not only does one have to dispense with the Holy Quran, one is also unable to adequately rely on the hadith. 1. S ur ah Y u nus , 10:37 [Publisher]