HOW CORRUPTION GETS INTO THE THREE ABRAHAMIC RELIGIONS

 HOW CORRUPTION GETS INTO THE

THREE ABRAHAMIC RELIGIONS

Judaism • Christianity • Islam

A Critical Study of Human Additions to Divine Revelation

Table of Contents

Preface: How This Book Came to Be

Introduction: A Book Every Sincere Believer Needs to Read

Chapter One: Judaism — When the Talmud Replaced the Torah

Chapter Two: Christianity — When Men’s Biographies Replaced God’s Revelation

Chapter Three: Islam — When the Hadiths Competed with the Quran

Chapter Four: Where the Quran and Hadiths Directly Contradict Each Other

Conclusion: The Way Back to God

Bibliography: Sources and Further Reading

Preface: How This Book Came to Be

Every sincere believer reaches a moment when they ask a question they were never supposed to ask. A moment when they look at the religion they were raised in — the traditions, the rulings, the practices passed down through generations — and quietly wonder: did God actually command all of this?

This book was born from that question.

It was not born from doubt in God. It was born from certainty in God — and from the uncomfortable recognition that much of what passes as religious obligation in the three great Abrahamic faiths cannot be traced back to God’s own direct words. It comes instead from the words of men: scholars, compilers, councils, and institutions that accumulated authority over the centuries and eventually placed themselves between the believer and God’s revelation.

This is not a new observation. The prophets themselves made it. Moses warned against adding to God’s word. Jesus condemned those who made void God’s commandments through their tradition. The Quran repeatedly challenges those who follow the rulings of scholars and the traditions of their fathers over the direct word of God.

The prophets were ignored. The additions were made. And billions of sincere believers today follow religious systems shaped substantially by human hands — while believing with complete conviction that they are following God.

This book is written out of deep respect for sincere believers — and deep concern for what has been done to the pure message they deserve to receive. It is a book about one of the most important questions a human being can ask: am I following God, or am I following what men told me God wants?

The evidence presented here comes from each tradition’s own texts, its own history, and the writings of its own scholars. No outside authority is required to see what happened. The corruption is visible from within — for those with the courage to look.

May God guide every sincere seeker to His straight path, and grant the courage to follow it wherever it leads.

Introduction: A Book Every Sincere Believer Needs to Read

Why This Book Was Written

This book was not written to attack religion. It was written to defend it — to defend God’s true message from what human beings have done to it over centuries of additions, alterations, and inventions made in God’s name.

All three great Abrahamic religions — Judaism, Christianity, and Islam — began with something pure. God spoke. God revealed. God guided. His message was clear, sufficient, and complete. But in each case, human beings were not satisfied with what God provided. Scholars added commentary. Priests added doctrine. Religious institutions added tradition. And gradually, layer by layer, the pure message of God was buried under an enormous weight of men’s words — words that were eventually given divine authority they were never meant to have.

This happened in Judaism through the Talmud. It happened in Christianity through the Gospels and Church doctrine. And it happened in Islam through the Hadith collections. In all three cases, the path back to God requires the courage to distinguish between what God actually said and what men added in His name.

Who This Book Is Written For

This book is written primarily for Muslims — people who believe in the Quran as God’s preserved and final word. It is written for Muslims who love their religion deeply but feel something is wrong. Who read the Quran and find it clear, liberating, and sufficient — and then look at the complex, divided, often contradictory system of Hadith-based Islamic law and feel a deep unease they cannot quite name.

That unease is correct. Trust it.

The Central Argument

God sent pure revelations to His prophets. In each case, human beings added to those revelations — commentary, biography, reported sayings, legal rulings — and elevated those human additions to divine authority. When men’s words are given God’s authority, religion becomes corrupted. The followers of that religion end up serving a system built largely by human scholarship while believing they are following God.

A Note on Courage

Reading this book requires courage. Not because its arguments are complicated — they are not. But because it challenges things that millions of people hold sacred. It challenges not God or His revelation, but the human additions that have been placed on top of that revelation and treated as equally sacred.

Every reform in religious history has required this courage. God condemned the response of “we found our fathers doing this” repeatedly in the Quran. He called people away from tradition and toward His direct word, again and again, in every generation. This book is an invitation to make that same courageous choice.

Chapter One: Judaism — When the Talmud Replaced the Torah

God’s Word to Moses

At Mount Sinai, God gave Moses the Torah — the direct word of God, a complete and sufficient guide for the Children of Israel. It was clear, authoritative, and came directly from God. The Torah itself warns against adding to it:

“You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God.” Deuteronomy 4:2

“Everything that I command you, you shall be careful to do. You shall not add to it or take from it.” Deuteronomy 12:32

God’s instruction could not be clearer. Do not add. Do not subtract. Yet what happened in the centuries that followed is precisely what God warned against.

The Birth of the Oral Torah

After the Babylonian exile, Jewish religious life became centered around scribes and later the Pharisees — a scholarly class who developed an enormous body of oral tradition they claimed had been passed down orally from Moses alongside the written Torah. This single claim transformed Jewish scholarship from commentary into a second scripture. But the Torah itself contains no mention of an oral Torah. The claim was made by later scholars to authorize their own interpretive tradition.

The Mishnah and the Talmud

Around 200 CE — more than a thousand years after Moses — the oral traditions were compiled into the Mishnah, then further developed into the Talmud. The Babylonian Talmud alone runs to approximately 6,200 pages. This enormous human compilation became, in mainstream Judaism, more practically authoritative than the Torah itself. Jewish law today — Halacha — is derived primarily from the Talmud, not directly from the Torah.

The Consequences

The Torah was filtered through men’s interpretations. The religion became extraordinarily complex. Divisions multiplied. Scholars became indispensable intermediaries between God and the believer — an authority God never granted any human being. Even Jesus condemned this: “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition.” (Mark 7:9)

Chapter Two: Christianity — When Men’s Biographies Replaced God’s Revelation

Jesus and the Original Message

Jesus came with a message from God — to worship God alone and return to pure faith. But within decades of his departure, his followers were already divided. Within centuries, a religion had been built around him that would have been unrecognizable to those who walked with him in Galilee.

The Gospels: Men’s Words, Not God’s Revelation

The four Gospels were written by human beings decades after Jesus, based on oral tradition and memory. None of the Gospel writers were eyewitnesses to most of what they record. The Gospels contradict each other on important details — genealogies, resurrection accounts, and last words. They were written in Greek, not the Aramaic Jesus spoke. And which Gospels to include in the Bible was decided by men at church councils, not by God.

Paul: The Man Who Shaped Christianity More Than Jesus

Paul of Tarsus never met Jesus during his lifetime. He received his gospel through a personal vision. Yet his letters — written before the Gospels — shaped Christian theology more profoundly than any other single influence. The disciples who actually knew Jesus had significant theological disagreements with Paul, as the New Testament itself reveals.

The Trinity: Men’s Doctrine, Not God’s Teaching

The word “Trinity” does not appear in the Bible. The doctrine was formally defined at church councils in the 4th century CE — more than 300 years after Jesus. At the Council of Nicaea in 325 CE, bishops voted — by majority decision, under the influence of Emperor Constantine — to declare Jesus co-equal and co-eternal with God. Those who disagreed were exiled as heretics. This is not divine revelation. This is men making theological decisions with political power.

“Do not add to his words, lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar.” Proverbs 30:6

Chapter Three: Islam — When the Hadiths Competed with the Quran

God’s Promise and Man’s Interference

“Indeed, it is We who sent down the Quran, and indeed, We will be its guardian.” Quran 15:9

God guaranteed the preservation of the Quran. He made no such promise about any hadith collection. If God wanted Hadiths to be a religious authority, why did He not protect them? Why did He not mention them in the Quran as a necessary second source of guidance?

The Quran Declares Itself Sufficient

“This day I have perfected for you your religion and completed My favor upon you.” Quran 5:3

“And We have revealed to you the Book as clarification for everything.” Quran 16:89

“So in what hadith after this will they believe?” Quran 77:50

God declared the religion perfect and complete. He said the Book clarifies everything. He challenged those who would seek guidance in any hadith other than the Quran. The Quran itself, in God’s own words, challenges the hadith tradition.

The Historical Reality

The Prophet Muhammad died in 632 CE. The major hadith collections were not compiled until 200 to 300 years later. Imam Bukhari examined 600,000 narrations and accepted only 7,000 — meaning he himself rejected 593,000 as unreliable. This is human scholarship, not divine preservation.

Most critically: the Prophet himself commanded his companions not to write down his sayings. This command is preserved in Sahih Muslim itself. If the Prophet wanted his sayings to become a permanent religious authority, why did he prohibit writing them?

The Consequences for Islam

The Hadiths divided the Muslim community into competing schools of law. They introduced punishments the Quran never commanded. They placed scholars as indispensable intermediaries between God and the believer. And they made Islam unnecessarily complex — despite God saying four times in Surah Al-Qamar that He made the Quran easy.

Chapter Four: Where the Quran and Hadiths Directly Contradict Each Other

If the Hadiths were truly a divine supplement to the Quran — as mainstream Islamic scholarship claims — they would never contradict the Quran. A message from God cannot contradict itself. Two authentic revelations from the same divine source cannot produce opposite rulings on the same question.

Yet that is precisely what we find. On issue after issue, the Quran says one thing clearly and directly, and the Hadith collections attribute to the Prophet the opposite position. The contradictions documented in this chapter are not matters of interpretation or nuance. They are direct, undeniable conflicts between God’s preserved word and narrations compiled by fallible men two centuries after the Prophet’s death.

In every case, the question must be asked: if these two sources contradict each other, which one should a sincere Muslim follow? The answer is the one God Himself guaranteed — the one God said is complete, clear, and sufficient. The Quran.

Note: Green text below represents what the Quran says. Red text represents what the Hadiths say.

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1. The Punishment for Adultery

✔ The Quran Says: Flogging — 100 Lashes

“The woman and the man guilty of adultery or fornication — flog each of them with a hundred stripes.” Quran 24:2

The Quran is explicit, detailed, and final. The punishment is flogging — 100 lashes. God specifies this clearly. There is no qualification for marital status. No mention of stoning. No mention of death. The verse applies to “the woman and the man” — all cases.

✘ The Hadiths Say: Stoning to Death

“The Prophet ordered a man who committed adultery to be stoned to death.” Sahih Bukhari 6820, Sahih Muslim 1691

The hadith completely replaces the Quranic punishment with death by stoning. Scholars who defend both sources claim stoning applies to married adulterers while flogging applies to the unmarried. But the Quran makes no such distinction. Adding a qualification the Quran does not make is itself an addition to God’s word — exactly the corruption this book documents.

Furthermore, stoning was a punishment from the Torah — not from the Quran. God deliberately replaced that old law with a new ruling in the Quran. The hadith tradition restored the pre-Islamic, pre-Quranic punishment that God had already superseded.

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2. Apostasy — Leaving Islam

✔ The Quran Says: No Worldly Punishment

“There is no compulsion in religion. Truth stands clear from error.” Quran 2:256

“So whoever wills — let him believe. And whoever wills — let him disbelieve.” Quran 18:29

“Indeed, those who believed then disbelieved, then believed, then disbelieved, and then increased in disbelief — God was not to forgive them.” Quran 4:137

That last verse is especially powerful. God describes people who went back and forth between belief and disbelief multiple times. If apostasy were punishable by death, this sequence would be impossible. The verse itself proves that leaving Islam carries consequences in the afterlife — not in this world.

✘ The Hadiths Say: Death Penalty

“Whoever changes his religion — kill him.” Sahih Bukhari 6922

Five words in a single hadith override the Quran’s repeated, clear declarations of religious freedom. This hadith has been used throughout Islamic history to justify the execution of people who left Islam. It directly contradicts the Quranic principle that there is no compulsion in religion — a principle God Himself declared, not once, but repeatedly across the Quran.

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3. Is the Quran Sufficient on Its Own?

✔ The Quran Says: It Is Complete and Sufficient

“This day I have perfected for you your religion and completed My favor upon you.” Quran 5:3

“And We have revealed to you the Book as clarification for everything.” Quran 16:89

“A Book whose verses have been detailed — from an All-Wise, All-Aware.” Quran 11:1

God declared the religion perfect and complete. He said the Book clarifies everything. If the religion was already complete at the time of the Prophet, what need was there for 600,000 hadiths compiled 200 years later? Perfection needs no supplement. Completion needs no addition.

✘ The Hadiths Say: The Quran Is Not Enough

“I have been given the Quran and something similar to it along with it. Yet the time is coming when a man will be sitting on his couch and will say: Follow the Quran alone — what you find in it as halal, take it as halal, and what you find in it as haram, take it as haram.” Abu Dawud 4604

This hadith explicitly anticipates and condemns the Quran-alone position. A narration attributed to the Prophet tells Muslims that following the Quran alone is wrong — directly contradicting the Quran’s own declaration that it is complete, detailed, and sufficient. One of them must be false. God’s preserved word, or a man’s narration compiled two centuries later?

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4. Dogs — Pure or Impure?

✔ The Quran Says: Dogs Are Normal Animals

“And their dog stretched his forelegs at the threshold.” Quran 18:18

“They ask you what is lawful for them. Say: Lawful for you are good things and what hunting animals catch for you.” Quran 5:4

The Quran mentions dogs without any negativity. In Surah Al-Kahf, a dog accompanies the righteous companions of the cave — described neutrally, even positively. In Surah Al-Ma’idah, the prey caught by trained hunting dogs is declared halal. The Quran treats dogs as ordinary animals.

✘ The Hadiths Say: Dogs Are Impure and Drive Away Angels

“Angels do not enter a house in which there is a dog.” Sahih Bukhari 3225

“Whoever keeps a dog — except a dog for herding, farming, or hunting — one qirat of his good deeds will be deducted every day.” Sahih Bukhari 5480

“If a dog licks a vessel of yours, wash it seven times.” Sahih Muslim 279

The Quran declares the prey caught by hunting dogs to be halal food. The hadith says a dog licking a vessel requires seven washings for purification. The Quran mentions a dog accompanying righteous believers without any criticism. The hadith says keeping a dog causes the daily loss of good deeds. These two positions cannot both be from the same divine source.

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5. Music and Musical Instruments

✔ The Quran Says: Nothing — Not a Single Verse Prohibits Music

The Quran does not contain a single verse prohibiting music, singing, or musical instruments. The word for music does not appear in any prohibition anywhere in the entire Quran. God, who detailed everything from inheritance shares to the rules of marriage and divorce, said nothing against music.

✘ The Hadiths Say: Music Is Forbidden

“There will be among my nation people who will consider as lawful: fornication, silk, alcohol, and musical instruments.” Sahih Bukhari 5590

This single hadith is the primary basis for music being declared haram across much of the Islamic world. Millions of Muslims believe music is forbidden by God. But God never said this in His book. A human narration of disputed authenticity became the basis for declaring an entire dimension of human expression forbidden. When a hadith prohibits what God’s own word never prohibited, who is truly being followed — God, or men?

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6. Images, Statues, and Artistic Representation

✔ The Quran Says: Solomon Had Craftsmen Who Made Statues

“They made for him what he willed of elevated chambers, statues, bowls like reservoirs, and stationary kettles.” Quran 34:13

God describes craftsmen making statues for the Prophet Solomon — without a word of condemnation. If image-making were among the gravest sins, as the hadiths claim, would God describe it as a blessing given to Solomon and leave it without comment or criticism?

✘ The Hadiths Say: Image-Makers Will Be the Most Punished on Judgment Day

“The most severely punished people on the Day of Resurrection will be the image-makers.” Sahih Bukhari 5950

“Angels do not enter a house in which there are images.” Sahih Bukhari 3226

The Quran describes God blessing Solomon with craftsmen who made statues. A hadith says image-makers will be the most severely punished of all people on the Day of Resurrection. These two statements cannot both be true. If image-making were the gravest of sins, the Quran’s description of Solomon’s statues would be a scandal — not a neutral historical note.

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7. How Many Times Must Muslims Pray Each Day?

✔ The Quran Mentions Three Prayer Times

“Establish prayer at the decline of the sun until the darkness of the night and the Quran at dawn. Indeed, the recitation of dawn is witnessed.” Quran 17:78

“So glorify God when you reach the evening and when you rise in the morning. And to Him belongs praise in the heavens and the earth, and at night, and when you are at noon.” Quran 30:17-18

Careful reading of the Quran reveals three distinct prayer times explicitly mentioned: dawn (Fajr), midday/afternoon, and evening/night. The Quran, which God said details everything, never specifies five prayers.

✘ The Hadiths Say: Five Daily Prayers, Negotiated Down from Fifty

“God enjoined fifty prayers on my nation... I went back to Moses, and he said: Go back to your Lord and ask for a reduction... until only five prayers remained.” Sahih Bukhari 3207

The five daily prayers — one of the most fundamental obligations in Islam — are not clearly established by the Quran. They are established by a hadith narrative that describes the Prophet negotiating with God, with Moses helping him, to reduce prayers from fifty to five. This narrative raises serious theological questions: Does God set requirements He knows need to be negotiated down? Does Moses know better than God what the Muslim community can handle? The Quran’s own description of God does not support this picture.

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8. Inheritance Rights — The Case of Fatimah

✔ The Quran Gives Daughters Clear Inheritance Rights

“God instructs you concerning your children: for the male, what is equal to the share of two females.” Quran 4:11

The Quran dedicates extensive, detailed verses to inheritance law. Daughters, wives, mothers, and other female relatives receive explicitly defined shares. The system is mathematically precise. God left no ambiguity.

✘ A Hadith Was Used to Deny Fatimah Her Inheritance

“We — the prophets — do not leave behind any inheritance. What we leave is charity.” Sahih Bukhari 3093

Immediately after the Prophet’s death, his daughter Fatimah — his only surviving child — came to claim her inheritance from her father’s estate. The Quran guaranteed her a share. She was turned away based on this single hadith, which claimed prophets leave no inheritance.

The Prophet’s own daughter, guaranteed rights by God’s own word, was denied those rights by a man’s narration. Fatimah reportedly died deeply grieved by this, within months of her father. She was denied what God Himself promised her. This is not a minor historical footnote. It is one of the most devastating examples of a hadith being used to override the Quran — with tragic human consequences.

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9. Can Anyone See God?

✔ The Quran Says: No One Can See God

“Vision cannot perceive Him, but He perceives all vision.” Quran 6:103

“And when Moses arrived at Our appointed time and his Lord spoke to him, he said: My Lord, show Yourself to me that I may look at You. He said: You will not see Me.” Quran 7:143

The Quran is absolute on this point. Even Moses — the greatest prophet of the Torah, who spoke directly with God — was told he could not see God. The verse is unambiguous: no vision perceives God.

✘ The Hadiths Suggest the Prophet Saw God

“The Prophet saw his Lord.” Various hadith collections — debated among scholars

Various narrations suggest the Prophet saw God during the Night Journey. Muslim scholars themselves are divided on whether these narrations refer to a physical vision or a dream. But the very existence of such narrations creates a direct contradiction with the Quran’s absolute statement. If God told Moses — who spoke to Him directly — that no one can see Him, how could the Prophet have seen Him? Either the Quran is wrong, or the hadith is wrong. For a sincere Muslim, there is only one possible answer.

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10. Intercession on the Day of Judgment

✔ The Quran Repeatedly Denies That Anyone Can Intercede

“And fear a day when no soul will suffice for another soul at all, and no intercession will be accepted from it, and no compensation will be taken from it, and they will not be aided.” Quran 2:48

“O you who have believed, spend from what We have provided for you before a day comes when there is no exchange and no friendship and no intercession.” Quran 2:254

“Say: To God belongs all intercession.” Quran 39:44

The Quran repeatedly and emphatically warns believers not to rely on intercession. Three separate verses make the same point. Intercession belongs to God alone. No soul can help another. Friendship will not avail. There will be no exchange.

✘ The Hadiths Say the Prophet Will Intercede for Sinners

“My intercession will be for those of my nation who committed major sins.” Abu Dawud 4739, Tirmidhi 2435

Entire theological systems in Islam are built around the belief in the Prophet’s intercession — shafa’a. Muslims pray hoping the Prophet will intercede for them on the Day of Judgment. This belief comes entirely from hadiths. The Quran, repeatedly and emphatically, says intercession belongs to God alone and warns believers not to rely on it. The contradiction could not be more direct.

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11. How Should Muslims Treat Non-Muslims?

✔ The Quran Commands: Justice and Kindness to All

“God does not forbid you from being kind and just to those who have not fought you over religion or driven you from your homes. Indeed, God loves those who act justly.” Quran 60:8

“And do not let the hatred of a people prevent you from being just. Be just — that is nearer to righteousness.” Quran 5:8

The Quran commands justice and kindness to non-hostile non-Muslims explicitly. God says He loves those who act justly. He forbids letting hatred prevent justice. These are clear, direct moral commands from God.

✘ The Hadiths Restrict Engagement with Non-Muslims

“Do not initiate the greeting of peace with Jews and Christians.” Sahih Muslim 2167

“Expel the polytheists from the Arabian Peninsula.” Sahih Bukhari 3053

The Quran commands kindness and justice to non-hostile non-Muslims. A hadith prohibits even greeting them with peace — the most basic human courtesy. The Quran’s moral universalism, which God declared explicitly, is replaced by hadith-based exclusivism. When a hadith produces behavior that God’s own word forbids, the choice between the two is not difficult for a sincere believer.

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12. Should the Prophet’s Words Be Written Down?

✔ The Prophet Said: Write Nothing But the Quran

“Do not write down anything from me except the Quran. Whoever has written something from me other than the Quran should erase it.” Sahih Muslim 3004 — the Prophet’s own words

This command is preserved in Sahih Muslim itself — the second most authoritative hadith collection in Sunni Islam. The Prophet explicitly prohibited writing down his sayings and commanded that anything already written be erased. This is not ambiguous. It is a direct command.

✘ Later Hadiths Authorize Writing the Prophet’s Words

“Write from me, for by God, nothing but truth comes out of this mouth.” Abu Dawud 3646

Later narrations attributed to the same Prophet authorize writing his sayings — directly contradicting his earlier explicit command. Both cannot be authentic. The authentic command — preserved in the most authoritative collections — was to write only the Quran. The later narrations authorizing hadith-writing were fabricated to justify the very practice the Prophet had prohibited.

This is perhaps the most self-defeating contradiction in all of hadith literature. The hadith tradition’s own sources record the Prophet telling his companions not to create what became the hadith tradition.

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Summary: The Contradictions at a Glance

The table below summarizes the twelve direct contradictions documented in this chapter. In every case, the Quran — God’s preserved, guaranteed word — says one thing. The hadiths say another.

Topic	Quran Says	Hadith Says
Adultery punishment	100 lashes (Quran 24:2)	Stoning to death (Bukhari 6820)
Apostasy	No worldly punishment (Quran 2:256, 18:29)	Death penalty (Bukhari 6922)
Quran’s sufficiency	Complete and sufficient (Quran 5:3, 16:89)	Not enough alone (Abu Dawud 4604)
Dogs	Neutral / positive (Quran 18:18, 5:4)	Impure, angels avoid homes with dogs (Bukhari 3225)
Music	No prohibition anywhere in Quran	Forbidden (Bukhari 5590)
Images & statues	Made for Solomon without condemnation (Quran 34:13)	Image-makers most punished (Bukhari 5950)
Daily prayers	Three times mentioned in Quran	Five times — established by hadith only
Seeing God	Impossible — no vision perceives God (Quran 6:103)	Prophet reportedly saw God (Sahih Muslim)
Intercession	Belongs to God alone (Quran 39:44, 2:48)	Prophet intercedes for sinners (Abu Dawud 4739)
Non-Muslims	Kindness and justice commanded (Quran 60:8)	Do not greet them with peace (Muslim 2167)
Writing Prophet’s words	Write nothing but Quran (Sahih Muslim 3004)	Write everything from Prophet (Abu Dawud 3646)
Inheritance	Daughters receive explicit shares (Quran 4:11)	Prophets leave no inheritance (Bukhari 3093)

What These Contradictions Prove

These twelve contradictions are not the result of misreading or misinterpretation. They are clear, documented conflicts between the Quran’s direct statements and narrations compiled centuries after the Prophet. They prove three things with certainty.

First: the Hadiths cannot be divine revelation. God does not contradict Himself. If the Hadiths were truly from the same divine source as the Quran, they would never produce opposite rulings on the same questions. The contradictions are proof that the hadith tradition contains human fabrications and errors, regardless of how pious the collectors were.

Second: when Hadiths contradict the Quran, the Quran must take precedence. This is not a radical position — it is the logical consequence of believing the Quran is God’s preserved word. God guaranteed the Quran. He made no such guarantee for hadith collections. The guaranteed word of God overrides the fallible scholarship of men.

Third: the corruption of Islam followed exactly the same pattern as the corruption of Judaism and Christianity. Men’s words were elevated to divine authority. Those words then contradicted, overrode, and in some cases completely replaced God’s direct commands. The believers followed the men’s words, believing they were following God.

The way back is clear. Return to the Quran. Read it directly. Follow it completely. Measure everything else against it — and accept only what agrees with God’s own word.

“So in what hadith after this will they believe?” Quran 77:50

Conclusion: The Way Back to God

The Pattern is Clear

Across three religions, across three continents, across three millennia — the same pattern repeats itself. God reveals. Men add. The additions gain authority. The original revelation gets buried. The followers end up serving a system shaped largely by human hands while believing they are following God.

Chapter Four of this book makes this undeniable for Islam specifically. Twelve direct contradictions between the Quran and the hadith collections prove that the hadith tradition contains human error. God does not contradict Himself. When the Hadiths contradict the Quran — on adultery, apostasy, inheritance, intercession, and more — the Hadiths must be wrong.

What Returning to God Requires

For Muslims specifically, it means returning to the Quran as the sole religious authority. Reading it directly. Thinking about it seriously. Following what it says without requiring the permission of hadith collections compiled by fallible men two centuries after the Prophet.

It means asking, for every religious practice, every law, every obligation: where does God say this in the Quran? If the answer is nowhere — if it comes only from a hadith of disputed authenticity — then it deserves serious scrutiny. God does not ask us to follow what we cannot verify. He asks us to follow what He revealed.

The Final Word

God spoke. His word is preserved. It is available to every sincere believer today, directly, without intermediary. The corruption that entered the Abrahamic religions was the slow replacement of that direct divine speech with men’s words wearing divine authority. The way back is equally direct: return to what God said. Read it. Think about it. Follow it. Leave behind what men added.

“And follow the best of what has been revealed to you from your Lord before the punishment comes upon you suddenly while you do not perceive.” Quran 39:55

“This is My path, which is straight, so follow it; and do not follow other ways, for you will be separated from His way.” Quran 6:153

Bibliography: Sources and Further Reading

The Quran

All Quranic verses cited in this book are from the original Arabic text. English translations referenced include Sahih International, Pickthall, and Yusuf Ali translations for comparative purposes.

Judaism

The Torah (Five Books of Moses) — Deuteronomy 4:2, 12:32 and related passages on God’s commandment against addition.

The Babylonian Talmud — Standard Vilna edition. For the scope and structure of Talmudic law.

Karaite Jewish sources — for the historical movement that rejected Oral Torah authority and returned to Torah-only interpretation.

Christianity

The New Testament — Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; Letters of Paul; Book of Revelation.

Ehrman, Bart D. — Misquoting Jesus. For textual criticism of the New Testament and the human process of transmission.

Council of Nicaea (325 CE) — Historical records of the council decisions on the nature of Jesus and the formation of Christian doctrine.

Islam

Sahih al-Bukhari — Complete hadith collection. For the scope, methodology, and historical origin of hadith compilation.

Sahih Muslim — Including the narration of the Prophet’s instruction not to write down his sayings (Hadith 3004).

Abu Dawud — Sunan Abu Dawud. For hadiths on apostasy (4739), music prohibition (4604), and writing authorization (3646).

Ahmed Subhy Mansour — Quran-only scholarship and the argument for returning to the Quran as the sole religious authority.

General Comparative Religion

Armstrong, Karen — A History of God. For a broad overview of how the three Abrahamic religions developed over time.

Sanders, E.P. — The Historical Figure of Jesus. For scholarly analysis of the historical Jesus distinct from later theological development.

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