The writer has quoted a hadith from al-Kafi, from Imam ‘Ali Ar-Ridha (a.

The writer has quoted a hadith from al-Kafi, from Imam ‘Ali Ar-Ridha (a.s.) that: ‘‘Allah did not ever send a Prophet but that he should proclaim wine as forbidden, and that he should as well recognize that Allah is subject to Bada’ (the proposition that if a new circumstance should intervene it may cause Allah to alter His determination):’ What the hadith in al-Kafi says is simply this: “Never has Allah sent any prophet except with the prohibition of intoxicant and with the affirmation to Allah of bada’”.[^5] The unknown author has given a totally wrong meaning of bad a’ in brackets and has put it within the quotation marks to deceive the readers, who might think that the said meaning was a part of the hadith!!

It is for people like him that Allah says in the Qur’an: Most surely there is a party among them who distort the Book with their tongue that you may consider it to be a part of the Book while it is not a part of the Book.. and they tell a lie against Allah whilst they know .[^6] If this unknown writer had really seen al-Kafi, he would have read the following ahadith which are recorded before the hadith he has “quoted”: “Abu ‘Abdillah (peace be on him) said: ‘No Bad a’ occurs to…