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Response to 23 Questions - Part 135 - What is Hadith ( Hadees Kya Hai ) - Javed Ahmed Ghamidi

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Imam Bukhari named his book Al-Jamius Sahi Al-Musnad Al-Mukhtasar Min Umur-e Rasoolillahi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Wa Sunnihi Wa Ayyamihi.

1. GCIL PODCAST - Javed Ahmed Ghamidi, “Response to 23 Questions - Part 135,” centers on the question “What is Hadith (Hadees Kya Hai).” 2. Javed Ahmed Ghamidi appears as the main speaker, and the interviewer presses him on the ulema’s objection that he does not accept Hadith as a permanent source of Deen. 3. The episode asks what Hadith is for in Ghamidi’s framework, after the series has already discussed Quran and Sunnah as the two definite sources. 4. Ghamidi answers that Hadith is “the history of the era of Prophethood,” which he restates as the history of Muhammad Rasool Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. 5. He says the whole Deen is found in the Quran and Sunnah, and that both are definite sources transmitted by the consensus of Muslims. 6. He then says the reality of Hadith is not a separate creed or practice, but a record of the Prophetic era. 7. To show the classical scope of the term, he quotes Al-Hadith wa Al-Muhaddeseen on the Hadith scholar definition of words, actions, approvals, physical traits, moral traits, campaigns, and pre-Ba‘tha reports. 8. That quoted definition includes Tahannus in Ghar-e Hira, the Prophet being ummi, and being known for sidq and amanah before prophethood. 9. Ghamidi uses Maulana Munazir Ahsan Gilani as a South Asian scholar who also treated Hadith as part of world history. 10. He reads Gilani’s discussion from Tadween-e Hadees, where the historical significance of Hadith is described as a revolutionary event that affected religious, political, social, and moral life. 11. Gilani’s wording, as quoted here, treats Hadith as a preserved part of human history rather than only a Muslim archive. 12. Ghamidi then cites Imam Bukhari’s full book title, Al-Jamius Sahi Al-Musnad Al-Mukhtasar Min Umur-e Rasoolillahi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Wa Sunnihi Wa Ayyamihi. 13. He highlights the words “Umur” and “Ayyam” as evidence that Bukhari understood Hadith as the Prophet’s affairs, practices, and days. 14. He says the title itself shows that the art of Hadith covers matters related to the Holy Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. 15. The discussion also explains that history is narrated by people, so Hadith reports come through narrators rather than through direct divine legislation. 16. Ghamidi gives the example of Ruzgar-e Faqeer, where Syed Buheeduddin records memories of Allama Iqbal and makes the narrator responsible for the narration. 17. He then traces how reports about the Prophet began from the Prophet’s own era, when people noticed his life, his family, his migration, and the events around Hira. 18. The tone stays explanatory and argumentative, with long citations in Urdu and Arabic and repeated clarifications of the same thesis. 19. Listeners interested in Quran, Sunnah, Hadith methodology, and Islamic intellectual history will get the most from this discussion. 20. Listeners wanting a short conversational interview without dense textual citations may find it slow.

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