hadith
Critical examinations of hadith literature, transmission, contradictions, reliability, and theological implications in Islam.
Revisiting the Age of Aisha: Postscript Paid Members Public
Sam Shamoun In this section we shall cite some of the narrations concerning the second caliph Umar’s marriage proposal to Ali’s daughter in order to highlight the people’s reaction to a 47-year-old man desiring to marry a 10-12 year old girl. Note what the following sources say
Revisiting the Age of Aisha Pt. 4 Paid Members Public
Sam Shamoun We come to the fourth segment of our rebuttal. A Walking Contradiction Recall what Brown wrote: “… Finally, there are some elements of the Prophet's Sunnah that are actually prohibited for us, like continuous fasting and marrying more than four women…” Brown could not have picked a
Revisiting the Age of Aisha Pt. 3 Paid Members Public
Sam Shamoun We continue from where we previously left off. A Role Model for All Times Even though Brown appeals to cultural norms to justify Muhammad’s marriage to a premature minor, he forgets to mention that fact that his prophet is supposed to be a role model for all
Revisiting the Age of Aisha Pt. 2 Paid Members Public
Sam Shamoun We proceed with our response to Brown’s assertions. Here is what Brown further wrote in an attempt to defend Muhammad’s marriage to a minor: “The reason that no pre-modern critics paid attention to the Prophet’s marriage to a ten-year-old was because marrying girls considered underage
Revisiting the Age of Aisha Pt. 1 Paid Members Public
Sam Shamoun In this rebuttal we are going to be addressing another shameful attempt to justify Muhammad’s marriage to a 9-year-old minor. The following comments and interaction are taken from the website of Muslim apologist and Georgetown professor Jonathan A. C. Brown: bigdumbbear 7 points 6 months ago Dr.
Muslim Dawagandist Shabir Ally’s War With Himself Paid Members Public
Sam Shamoun It is time to once again document some more of Ally’s inconsistencies and deceptive tactics. We have mentioned the fact in some of our previous articles and rebuttals that Shabir Ally happens to be one of the most inconsistent and deceptive Muslim apologists out there since he
The Muslim Abuse and Misuse of Modern Biblical Scholarship Pt. 2b Paid Members Public
Sam Shamoun We continue from where we left off. In this particular section we want to address a few of Dunn’s assertions concerning the early Church’s worship of their risen Lord. He claims that there are specific words that are used for the worship given to God, which
The Muslim Abuse and Misuse of Modern Biblical Scholarship Pt. 2a Paid Members Public
Sam Shamoun It is time, once again, to turn the tables against Muslim dawagandist Paul Bilal Williams by taking the statements and positions of his own scholars and using them to show how this method would undermine the claims of Muhammad and the Quran. We will again be looking at