The age of Aisha
The Prophet married a child. Bukhari records that Aisha was six at the contract and nine when the marriage was consummated.
Hadith Authenticity
Inheritance across faiths
A hadith stating that a Muslim may not inherit from a non-Muslim is discriminatory nonsense.
“The hadith are full of inhumane and absurd material. I do not think they can be taken as true.”
This objection is almost always made in the abstract, and it collapses the moment specifics are supplied. The hadith corpus is not a single…
The sale of dogs
A hadith forbidding the price of a dog is a high level of nonsense, and shows the arbitrariness of the tradition.
The monkeys report
A hadith in al-Bukhari has the Prophet participating in the stoning of a monkey for adultery, which is plainly insane.