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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Light On the Muhammadan Sunnah Or Defence of the Hadith Effect of Delay in Tadwin: When the Messenger's traditions were abandoned unwritten, and the Sahabah had not undertaken the task of committing them to writing as they did in case of the Qur'an, the horizons of narration from the Messenger expanded and doors were open wide for evil-minded and ill-hearted people for narrating what they willed with no fear of qualm of conscience nor restraint of religion.

495 Had the elderly Muslims or those who embraced Islam later on, been one class in regard of truthfulness and equal level of reliability and good conduct, or had the riwayah been made dependent on those who were called the true Suhbah (), and the writing covered whatever narrated during the era of the Rightly-guided Caliphs (al-Khulafa' al-Rashidun), the reporting (naql) would have been limited only to whatever uttered by the Prophet (S) without any addition or omission, and all the traditions would have come correct with no little doubt.

Also the Ummah would have received these traditions with pleasure and admission as they did in case of the Qur'anic verses, with the successors taking them from the predecessors with their words and meanings, with none of the Muslims or non-Muslims daring to oppose them, and the Ummah being guided through their light and led aright, without bigotry to any madhhab (creed) or sectarianism, as it is a principle to which religion calls as stated in the Qur'an: "And hold fast, all of you together, to the cable of Allah, and do not separate...", and the verse: "Verily those who divided their religion and became schismatics, thou hast no concern with anything of them." But people are the same every age, and human beings have unchangeable dispositions, non-alterable instincts and unconverted desires.

Further the and the Followers who succeeded them were never exceptional among people nor infallibale. 496 "It is the law of Allah in His creation. Thou wilt not find for the law of Allah aught of power to change." It is sufficient to know that as the Messenger was at the threshold of death, disagreement and conflict erupted among his even before performing rituals of his burial.