The Consequences of the Hadith Corpus

Joshua Little thinks these Hadith are garbage. To be clear, he does believe you can occasionally find relevant points or material about Muhammad there but it's basically like walking through a garbage dump to him. This is the man that Kenny is relying on to argue that Aisha was not nine years old when Muhammad had sex with her. If we're treating these Hadiths like garbage, if we're treating Sahih el-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Sunan Abadaw, like garbage that you can sift through and maybe using the methods of Western critical scholars come up with something by an argument; other than that, you just can't trust. You have to approach them with

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