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In the second part of our interview with Dr. Joshua Little, we discuss the views of historical-critical scholarship in regard to the authenticity question: Do hadiths reliably go back to the Prophet Muhammad?
Note: I was suffering from a fever during this interview... so I start to fade near the end -- apologies in advance!
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You can watch Part 1 of this interview here:
• Oxford Historian Dr. J...
42:47 Prior Probability
47:17 Lateness of the Sources
56:18 Full of Contradictions
01:03:50 Propagandistic Reports
01:07:38 Historical Anachronisms
01:26:13 Supernatural Elements
01:28:13 Reports of Mass Fabrication
01:33:49 Late Isnāds
01:44:30 The Early Usage of the Word "Sunna" Differs from the Classical Usage
01:52:43 Rapid Numerical Growth in Hadith
01:57:01 Absence of Hadith in Early Sources
02:08:55 Peculiar Patterns Inconsistent with Genuine History
02:18:10 Hadiths Contradict Earlier Sources
02:21:06 Orality Means Less Precision in Transmission
02:31:16 Extreme Variation, Rapid Mutation
02:34:29 Artificial Literary Topoi
02:37:52 Product of Popular Storytelling
02:40:34 Exegesis Pretending to be History
02:43:58 Quranic Amnesia: Discontinuity Between Quranic Milieu
02:50:26 No Effective, Consistent Method
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