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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Prohibition of Recording the Hadith, Causes and Effects First Reason: Justifications Of Abu-Bakr Abu-Bakr’s justifications can be concluded from the following two texts: (1) It has been narrated that `Ā`ishah said, My father collected the Hadith (of the Messenger of Allah), which was five hundred texts. He spent that night so sleeplessly and restlessly that I was sad for him.

I therefore asked, ‘Are you moving restlessly due to an ailment or information that you received?’ In the morning, he asked me to fetch him the collection of Hadith that he had put with me. When I fetched them, he set fire to them.

As I asked for the reason, he replied, ‘I anticipated that I would die while I still have this collection among which there might be reports of a man that I deemed trustworthy while he was the opposite; therefore, I would be the narrator of such false reports.’[^1] (2) The following report has been within Ibn Abi-Mulaykah’s incompletely transmitted Hadiths ( mursal) : After the demise of the Holy Prophet, Abu-Bakr gathered people and said, ‘You are reporting about the Messenger of Allah inconsistent narrations.

People coming after you will be engaged in more intense discrepancy. Therefore, do not report anything about the Messenger of Allah, and if anyone asks you, you should refer to the Book of Allah as the arbitrator.

You should thus deem lawful whatever is lawful therein and deem unlawful whatever is unlawful therein.’[^2] Before discussing the two previous texts, two questions must be answered: First: Did Abu-Bakr collect the five hundred texts during the life of the Holy Prophet and by his commandment, or did he collect them after that as a consequence of the political circumstances and the social exigency?

Second: Was the decision of prohibiting the recordation and reporting of the Sunnah issued in a late period, or was it the Holy Prophet who prohibited recording it during his lifetime.