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Aside from Divine Revelation, are the traditional sayings and interpretations of men considered to be trustworthy and needed to properly understand the Holy Books? (Hadith)

Bible: No Qur'an: Yes

Romans 3:4 – God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged…

An-Najm 52:33-34 – 33 Do they say: “He has invented it (the Qur’an) himself?”… 34 Let them produce a speech like it, if what they say be true.

Note: Within Islam the most trusted and frequently used collectors of the Hadith include Ibn Ishaq (d. 768); Ebu Davud (d. 775); Ibn Hisham (d. 833); Muhammad al-Bukhari (d. 870); Sahih Muslim (d.875); Ibn Maje (d. 886); alTirmidhi (d. 892); Ebu Jafer Taberi (d. 923); None of these men lived during or even close to Muhammad’s lifetime (570-632). Out of the 600,000 hadith Bukhari collected over 16 years, he only kept 7,397 as being genuine (sahih). He threw away over 98% of what he collected from religious Muslims as being exaggerated or untrue.