Note
This was a miniscule sample from the ocean of such dishonest Ahle Sunnat
fabricators and perhaps the reader would regard them as excess, unaware of the
fact that many Ahle Sunnat think that fabricating traditions and attributing
falsehood to Prophet, his companions and companions of companions is not against piety and general honesty, on the contrary, fabricating traditions is a sign
of the righteous and through it, they sought divine proximity. That is why Yahya
bin Saeed Qattan says:
“I have not seen religious persons, more lying in something like traditions.”1
Qurtubi writes in Tadhkar:2
“We should not pay attention to false traditions, which fabricators have
fabricated regarding recitation of chapters of Quran and excellence of acts. How
numerous are persons, who fabricated traditions thinking that they were seeking
divine proximity through it; and in this way motivated people to perform
religious acts.”
As if lies and allegations are not evil things and have no defect and are not
opposed to human excellence and do not put a question mark on the honesty of a
person.
There was Harb bin Maimoon, who was a pious jurist; at the same time he
was the greatest liar of all times.
And there was Ibne Haitham Taymi, who spent most nights in prayer and in
the morning sat down and issued false statements.
There was Hafiz Abdul Mughis Hanbali, who is described as an honest,
trustworthy, religious, truthful, expert of jurisprudence, follower of Sunnah: and
at the same time he has written a book on excellence of Yazid bin Muawiyah on
the basis of fabricated traditions.
There was Abu Amr; also a pious man, who wrote a book on the excellence
of Muawiyah bin Abu Sufyan based on fabricated traditions.
From this aspect, numerous liars can be mentioned, who were leader of
people or famous Hafiz or jurists or teachers of traditions or expert orators and
some of them, only to promote one way of thinking, or according respect to one
leader or supporting one religion, intentionally spoke falsehood and it is for this
reason that fabricated traditions came into being in excess. That is why we find
so many contradictions in praises and condemnations.
Some people fabricated traditions in excellence of Abu Hanifah and
attributed them to Prophet. Like the report:
“After me a man would come, whose name is Noman bin Thabit and his
agnomen is Abu Hanifah. The religion of God and my Sunnah would be revived
through him.”3
And the report: “There is a man in my Ummah having the name Noman, and
agnomen of Abu Hanifah; he is the lamp of guidance of my Ummah; he is the lamp of my Ummah.”4
And the report: “All prophets boast over me and I boast over Abu Hanifah.
He is a pious man near my Lord, as if he is a mountain of knowledge and a
prophet from Bani Israel prophets. Thus, one who likes him has liked me and
one, who enrages him, has enraged me.”
Ibne Jauzi has said regarding this report: “It is fabricated.”
And Ajluni says: “This report is not correct, though it has many chains of
narrators.”5
Similarly: “Adam boasted upon me and I boasted over a man from my
Ummah, whose name is Noman and whose agnomen is Abu Hanifah. He is the
lamp of guidance of my Ummah.”
Ajluni has considered this report fabricated.6
Similarly the report: “If persons like Abu Hanifah had existed in the nations
of Moosa and Isa, they would not have become Jews and Christians.”7
In the same way is the report of Abul Bakhtari Kazzab:
“Abu Hanifah came to Ja’far bin Muhammad Sadiq (a.s.) and when Ja’far
looked at him, he said: I look at you and see that you would revive the Sunnah of
my grandfather after it has become old and you are the refuge of every distressed
one. Those, who are confused and backward find the path through you and you
guide them to the clear path. May divine assistance be in your lot, so that the
mystics may traverse the path through you.”
The extremism of some Hanafites reached such an extent that they thought
that he was more knowledgeable than the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.).
Ali bin Jarir says: I resided in Kufa. One day I traveled to Basra and
Abdullah bin Mubarak was present there. He asked: “What is the condition of
people in your town?”
I replied: “I left some people in Kufa, who think that Abu Hanifah is more
knowledgeable than Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.).”
He said: “They have apostatized.”8
I said: “They have made you as their leader in apostasy.”
Abdullah wept so much that his beard became wet. It implies that he used to
narrate traditions from Abu Hanifah.9
It is narrated from Fudhail bin Ayaz: “The hearts of these people have
become mixed with Abu Hanifah and they have exaggerated so much about him that they do not regard anyone more knowledgeable than him.”10