Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!think.com!samsung!crackers!m2c!wpi.WPI.EDU!zahle.wpi.edu!shari From: zix@cs.nott.ac.uk (Zafer Iqbal) Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam Subject: Re: the nature of the Prophet Message-ID: <1991Apr30.174932.2099@wpi.WPI.EDU> Date: 30 Apr 91 17:49:32 GMT References: <1991Apr26.215310.5015@wpi.WPI.EDU> <1991Apr28.232447.20331@wpi.WPI.EDU> Sender: news@wpi.WPI.EDU (News) Organization: Nottingham University Lines: 39 Approved: shari@zahle.wpi.edu Originator: shari@zahle.wpi.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: zahle.wpi.edu In article <1991Apr28.232447.20331@wpi.WPI.EDU> lateef@eemips.tamu.edu (Afroz Lateef) writes: > > >In article <1991Apr26.215310.5015@wpi.WPI.EDU> zeeshan@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Zeeshan Hasan) writes: >> >> "I am only a man. He who takes something from me must >> beware, for he may have taken a portion of the Fire." >> >> ... > > Maybe this can imply (maybe), to some facts like > the no; of wives a muslim can have. > i.e 4 wives whereas i heard that the prophet (saw) > had nine. ? is it not so? > >Afroz Lateef This hadith isn't quoted correctly - thhere are many other hadiths which are similar to this but they express the meaning more clearly. I haven't got the rerferences with me but can dig 'em up if needed. Essentially the under- standing put to this an simialr hadith is that he who narrates something I have said had better narrate carefully, for if he does not he will have prepared for himself a place in hell! Another point Zeeshan made was that whethere we can take things from the prophet(saw) since he was only a man. This is clarified in many ayats of the Quran that the prophet(saw) is not speaking of his own free will - it is but an inspiration. And other ayats ordering Muslims to take what the prophet has brought and leave what he has forbidden and that it is not for a believer to decide on a matter once the matter has been decided by Allah and his messenger. In matters of deen (life, religion) tthe prophet(saw) has to be followed and in other matters he does not, an example given in a hadith of dusting of the palmtrees. In revelatiion he is masoom and denying this is effectively denying the correctness of the Quran and Islam! Wasalam Zafer