He said that he wouldn't dare to...

He said that he wouldn't dare to, and that they would have hit/spank him if he did!! There is nothing holy about any of the personalities of the sahabah, in particular Abu Hurairah, that should prevent someone searching for the truth to investigate and re/evaluate their actions. They were human beings capable of errors at various levels, this is not to say that Allah (swt) won't forgive their errors, if He chooses.

However, if we are to follow their act, in this life, we must be clear in conscience that they don't deserve to be mistrusted, after studying the evidence. For if it becomes evident that they should be mistrusted, then one's brain (a gift from Allah) would (should) direct us not to use them as a guide, particularly, in what seems suspicious. Subject: Jews/Christians/Muslims(Part 1: Is there any similarity?) The following was sent a few months ago.

Now it is going to continue: The sequence of articles is important because some of conclusions are not valid until the last article.

**Sahih Muslim, Rendered into English by Abdul Hamid Siddiqi Printed at Hafeez Press, Sh.Muhammad Ashraf Kashmiri Bazar, Lahore(Pakistan) ** Chapter MCXII, titled as Following the footsteps of the jews and the christians Abu Said Alkhudri reported Allah's messenger (May peace be upon him) as saying: You would tread the same path as was trodden by those before you inch by inch and step by step so much so that if they had entered into the hole of the lizard, you would follow them in this also.

We said: Allah's messenger, do you mean Jews and Christians (by your words)"those before you"? He said: Who else(than those two religious groups)? This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Atab b. Yasar through another chain of transmitters. The same hadith is given in Sahih Bukhari with a little difference of translation. Here it comes: Dr.

Mohammad Muhsin Khan Islamic University, Medina al-Munawwara Narrated Abu Sa'id al-Khudri: The Prophet said, "You will follow the ways of those nations who were before you, span by span and cubit by cubit (i.e., inch by inch) so much so that even if they entered a hole of a mastigure, you would follow them." We said, "O Allah's Apostle! (Do you mean) the Jews and the Christians?" He said, "Whom else?" Also shiat has narrated the similar traditions through its own reliable narrators.

As I recall, you can locate such traditions in Tafaaseer under the Sourah[^84] Aayah[^19] Laterkabonna tabagan an tabagen Sourah: ensheghagh O.K.