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5: Extremism in defending the Imam:
Moulana Zakariyah mentions in Fazaail-e-Aamaal (The Stories of
the Sahabah) that Abu Bakr Siddeeq burnt a collection of five
hundred Ahaadeeth. He says this was due to caution, so that
inauthentic Hadeeth may not be reported through Abu Bakr.
On the basis of this Moulana Zakariyah attempts to defend Imam
Abu Haneefah and the fact that very few Ahaadeeth have been
narrated from him. He says, “This is the reason why Imam Abu
Haneefah was not so liberal in reporting Ahaadeeth.”
Moulana Zakariyah has taken this narration from “Tazkiratul-
Huffaz”, as mentioned in the Hindi and Urdu versions of Fazaail-e-
Aamaal. He, however, deliberately leaves out that the author of
“Tazkiratul-Huffaz” considers this narration to be baseless because
of many discrepancies in its chain of narration. 650
This is the very same narration that the rejecters of Hadeeth
promote to disorient the common people on the authority of
Hadeeth. In Fazaail-e-Aamaal, Moulana Zakariyah has exposed his
ignorant Jamaat to this dangerous doubt. This shows the attitude
of the Deobandis, who will go to any extend to defend their Imam,
even if the Hadeeth of Allah’s Messenger is harmed in the
process. Furthermore, here we have another contradiction. The
Deobandis claim that Imam Abu Haneefah based each and every
ruling of his upon a Hadeeth and at the same time they claim that
he did not narrate many Hadeeth!
According to this, the Imam is either guilty of the great sin of
hiding knowledge by not narrating the Hadeeth or he is guilty of
giving ruling based upon unsure knowledge. Of course, none of
this is true, what is true is that in the absence of the Hadeeth, the
650 Tazkiratul-Huffaz, vol.1, p.5 - This narration about Abu Bakr
Siddeeq has many discrepancies, there is a narrator in the chain of
this narration by the name of Ali bin Salih who is Majhool (unknown)
[Takreeb] - Another narrator is Muhammad Ibn Moosa who is
untrustworthy [Lisaanul-Meezan], and third narrator Moosa Ibn
Abdullah about him Imaam Bukharee (rahimahullah) says, Fihi
Nazar.
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