The Descent of the Messiah — Page 311
HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMADAS witnesses, or do you fabricate against Allah?" Living centuries after the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, they transmit Hadīth saying that the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said such and such, and they record these narrations of which they had no reliable standard of verification in their books. Hearken! The Messenger of God has also said that a number of impostors would appear after him and attribute false Ahādīth to him, and it will be incumbent upon people to subordinate the Hadith to the Holy Quran, to accept the Hadith if it conforms to the Holy Quran, and to reject it otherwise. Then how can we regard any Hadith as authentic without applying this very stand- ard, when the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, himself has laid down this criterion for verifying Hadith? The Maulana himself has cited this Hadith in one of his books. In short, it is no longer established that any Hadith that has been written in any book is in fact the saying of the Messengersas. See Uşūl Kāfi in Kitābul-Ilm wherein Imam Ja'far says: فما وافق كتاب الله فخذوه وما خالف فدعوه كل حديث لا يوافق کتاب الله فهو زخرف Just observe the preface of Usūül Kāfi and see what our Sheikhul-Muhaddithin writes about the Hadith of the Shiites. It is surprising that you disavow the scholars whose narrations you have presented. How can you then cite an argument from them? There are only two possibilities: either you are com- pletely uninformed about the principles of Mirza Sahib, or you 1 "Whatever agrees with the Book of God, take it, and whatever does not agree with it, leave it. Every Hadith that does not agree with the Book of God is an embellishment. " [Publisher] 311