The prophet didn't have concubines, and this is the idea that was brought to early Islam by some whom might be called the hypocrites. The Qur'an is clear about nobody but God knowing who the hypocrites are, however, after the deed is done, it is only then that we know their deeds. Still, the reasons for their action might not be intentional hypocrisy.
One of the topics of Shia - Sunni split deals a little bit with a story about certain women and wives of the Prophet who may or may have not been mentioned in the Qur'an in particular way we mostly understand. Shia and Sunni disagree on certain Verses of the Qur'an, and one of the disagreements is about who is the woman whose virtue has been cleared in one of the verses.
According to 80% of the Muslims, it is Aisha. According to 20%, it is Mary. And we allegedly don't know it's Mary, because of some hadiths, narrated by Aisha, who allegedly turned the story in her favor. The Shias point out to her self-confessed jealousy towards the woman who gave birth to a prophet's son. She narrates herself that she didn't like it, and that she told him "He doesn't look like you one bit."
Allegedly, she also started a roumor saying that the boy looks like one particular man from the society. And the Qur'an speaks in Mary's favor to clear her name. Later, Shias claim that the hadiths, mostly reported by Aisha, which includes the Prophet's seek of advice from a 12 year old Usama (later a famos soldier), are not solid evidence.
However, let's discuss the issue of concubines. For example, one of the girls Sunnis regard mostly as a concubine, the Mary from Egypt, was actually his wife. If not for marrying her, than at least for giving his son birth - according to old Arab customs, if your concubine becomes a mother of your child, she's automatically your wife.
However, the Qur'an says that a woman from "slaves" can be married, but not for quenching lust.
Different sources give different estimates of how many wives and cocnubines did the prophet have. Was that really difficult to know, how many wives, how many concubines did such an important person to those sources, actually have? It’s not how many teeth he had. So, the fact that those information are foggy, it’s pretty much irrelevant to take into account. All of those. Especially when it comes to “how many wives”. It’s not how many coats he had. So this means that this particular subject has been manipulated intentionally, and they had their reasons. Spreading lies about the prophet was - and still is - a job (to some people).
The Qur’an deals with the issue of concubines. It says that you can only marry a woman from the slaves of your household. The rules according to which somebody’s slaves had to be considered a household are not particularly mentioned in the Qur’an though, because the Qur’an focuses on freeing slaves, while the practice of the Prophet showed that the slaves were supposed to be protected after freeing, meaning, you can’t just say “Now you’re free”, and let a person go without anything into a world in which they were slaves “yesterday”. So, as the Qur’an commands freeing slaves (even buying off other people’s slaves, not just freeing your own - but the Muslims in the time of these verses were not that rich anyway, most of them were slaves or very poor to own any slaves) , the practice was to offer shelter to them. As for slaves women, they were allowed to be married to the Muslim men. This was taking down boundaries the Arabs used to have towards marrying a slave. Pre Islamic Arabs only used women slaves as sex slaves - Islam came to an end with that by ordering that one could (and should actually) only marry a woman, “but to start a family, not to satisfy lust”.
So, even if there are stories (which are contradicting one another) about the Prophet having concubines, the Qur’an orders to marry slaves-women.
And once again, the first hadith disagreement happened when the daughter of the Prophet heard a hadith from his best friend, the first Caliph. She asked for inheritance, and she was told about a hadith, she obviously hadn’t heard before, according to which a prophet doesn’t leave any inheritance.
The Prophet’s daughter disagreed with the Caliph, meaning she didn’t trust that he heard that hadith, or whatever. Before that, during the time the Prophet’s body started cooling down, as he passed away, the Muslims from Mecca argued with the Muslims from Medina about who should take over the leadership. Each side provided “our group is more deserving”.
Let's get back to the concubines, which don't exist in Islam, but somehow do exist in Islam.
As we see, the earliest hadiths were fabricated to favor a side. Whatever you needed, you simply invoked the prophet doing it. We can find many contradicting hadiths in the "authentic collections". The reason is that trustworthy people shouldn't have been trusted that much.
Unfortunatelly.
We need the hadith to keep our Islamic tradition, but we don't need to regard a book that has hadiths in it as a holy. Islam has only one source, and that is not the Qur'an AND the hadith. By claiming this, Muslims are going into polytheism, they ascribe a partner to God's word. He doesn't have partner in anything. Books included. Hadith is not to be mentioned along the Qur'an. It should only be invoked when the Qur'an doesn't give an answer to an issue. If it doesn't have an answer, it's not an issue. The Qur'an itself says it contains answers for all issues. Why do we need other words, except the Qur'an? Well, actually, this is from the Qur'an too. "What other stories except for the Qur'an will you follow?"
The Sunni Shia split deals with this issue as well.
I am not favoring Shias, but I'm deffinitely seeing how the Sunnis came to be. They started following "Sunnah" - INSTEAD of the Prophet's only book - THE QUR'AN. The Prophet's mission was to bring "down" the God's book, and he did it. The importance of Sunnah comes only from "sunnah". The verse according to which the sunnists desired to follow the Prophet doesn't really tell us to compile a books of narrations about the prophet. We're oreder to followt the Prophet. Not books that people compiled according to what other people said about him - and which contain contradictions, and historical and logical improbabilities. The Muslims based their religion on the hadith, not the Qur'an. Unfortunately. Following the prophet, when the verse was revealed, meant to follow him, to obey the Book he's bringing from God.
To be continued....
One of the topics of Shia - Sunni split deals a little bit with a story about certain women and wives of the Prophet who may or may have not been mentioned in the Qur'an in particular way we mostly understand. Shia and Sunni disagree on certain Verses of the Qur'an, and one of the disagreements is about who is the woman whose virtue has been cleared in one of the verses.
According to 80% of the Muslims, it is Aisha. According to 20%, it is Mary. And we allegedly don't know it's Mary, because of some hadiths, narrated by Aisha, who allegedly turned the story in her favor. The Shias point out to her self-confessed jealousy towards the woman who gave birth to a prophet's son. She narrates herself that she didn't like it, and that she told him "He doesn't look like you one bit."
Allegedly, she also started a roumor saying that the boy looks like one particular man from the society. And the Qur'an speaks in Mary's favor to clear her name. Later, Shias claim that the hadiths, mostly reported by Aisha, which includes the Prophet's seek of advice from a 12 year old Usama (later a famos soldier), are not solid evidence.
There are no concubines in Islam
However, let's discuss the issue of concubines. For example, one of the girls Sunnis regard mostly as a concubine, the Mary from Egypt, was actually his wife. If not for marrying her, than at least for giving his son birth - according to old Arab customs, if your concubine becomes a mother of your child, she's automatically your wife.
However, the Qur'an says that a woman from "slaves" can be married, but not for quenching lust.
Different sources give different estimates of how many wives and cocnubines did the prophet have. Was that really difficult to know, how many wives, how many concubines did such an important person to those sources, actually have? It’s not how many teeth he had. So, the fact that those information are foggy, it’s pretty much irrelevant to take into account. All of those. Especially when it comes to “how many wives”. It’s not how many coats he had. So this means that this particular subject has been manipulated intentionally, and they had their reasons. Spreading lies about the prophet was - and still is - a job (to some people).
The Qur’an deals with the issue of concubines. It says that you can only marry a woman from the slaves of your household. The rules according to which somebody’s slaves had to be considered a household are not particularly mentioned in the Qur’an though, because the Qur’an focuses on freeing slaves, while the practice of the Prophet showed that the slaves were supposed to be protected after freeing, meaning, you can’t just say “Now you’re free”, and let a person go without anything into a world in which they were slaves “yesterday”. So, as the Qur’an commands freeing slaves (even buying off other people’s slaves, not just freeing your own - but the Muslims in the time of these verses were not that rich anyway, most of them were slaves or very poor to own any slaves) , the practice was to offer shelter to them. As for slaves women, they were allowed to be married to the Muslim men. This was taking down boundaries the Arabs used to have towards marrying a slave. Pre Islamic Arabs only used women slaves as sex slaves - Islam came to an end with that by ordering that one could (and should actually) only marry a woman, “but to start a family, not to satisfy lust”.
So, even if there are stories (which are contradicting one another) about the Prophet having concubines, the Qur’an orders to marry slaves-women.
And once again, the first hadith disagreement happened when the daughter of the Prophet heard a hadith from his best friend, the first Caliph. She asked for inheritance, and she was told about a hadith, she obviously hadn’t heard before, according to which a prophet doesn’t leave any inheritance.
The Prophet’s daughter disagreed with the Caliph, meaning she didn’t trust that he heard that hadith, or whatever. Before that, during the time the Prophet’s body started cooling down, as he passed away, the Muslims from Mecca argued with the Muslims from Medina about who should take over the leadership. Each side provided “our group is more deserving”.
Let's get back to the concubines, which don't exist in Islam, but somehow do exist in Islam.
As we see, the earliest hadiths were fabricated to favor a side. Whatever you needed, you simply invoked the prophet doing it. We can find many contradicting hadiths in the "authentic collections". The reason is that trustworthy people shouldn't have been trusted that much.
Unfortunatelly.
The hadith is not the Qur'an
We need the hadith to keep our Islamic tradition, but we don't need to regard a book that has hadiths in it as a holy. Islam has only one source, and that is not the Qur'an AND the hadith. By claiming this, Muslims are going into polytheism, they ascribe a partner to God's word. He doesn't have partner in anything. Books included. Hadith is not to be mentioned along the Qur'an. It should only be invoked when the Qur'an doesn't give an answer to an issue. If it doesn't have an answer, it's not an issue. The Qur'an itself says it contains answers for all issues. Why do we need other words, except the Qur'an? Well, actually, this is from the Qur'an too. "What other stories except for the Qur'an will you follow?"
The Sunni Shia split deals with this issue as well.
I am not favoring Shias, but I'm deffinitely seeing how the Sunnis came to be. They started following "Sunnah" - INSTEAD of the Prophet's only book - THE QUR'AN. The Prophet's mission was to bring "down" the God's book, and he did it. The importance of Sunnah comes only from "sunnah". The verse according to which the sunnists desired to follow the Prophet doesn't really tell us to compile a books of narrations about the prophet. We're oreder to followt the Prophet. Not books that people compiled according to what other people said about him - and which contain contradictions, and historical and logical improbabilities. The Muslims based their religion on the hadith, not the Qur'an. Unfortunately. Following the prophet, when the verse was revealed, meant to follow him, to obey the Book he's bringing from God.
To be continued....
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