Thank you brother for that explanation! But, I was hoping for a comparison between the sunni hadiths science and the shia hadith science.
As'salamu Alaikum dear brother Mclinkin94,
Even the Shias wouldn't deny that their "hadith" sources are centuries after the latest Sunni sources. You see, our Sahih volumes (
with all of my issues with many of their hadiths), are based on much earlier volumes and collections such as:
1- Al-Tabari.
2- Ibn Ishaq.
3- And several other historians.
The Sahih collections basically came to go over all of the early Muslim writings and to come up with volumes that are most authentic. Still has holes in it, but it is a commendable job, and the Hadiths of the Sunnis do contain a lot of Truth in them.
The Shias "hadiths" came centuries after our Sahih collections! And their chain of narrations are a joke. This is why they never like to enter into the
ISNAD (authentication of chains) debates and work. They just take their narrations and accept them for what they are. They do have a fix for that however by claiming that all narrations from all sources must be compared with the Glorious Quran to know whether they are correct or not. While I whole-heartedly agree with this approach, but this still would not validate their much much latter hadiths.
The worst part about the shias' religion:The worst part about their mess is the following:
1- Their "scholars" don't have to be really knowledgeable of the Holy Quran.
2- Their very low standards on who can become a scholar in their religion allowed for
Zionists to infiltrate them.
This is why most of their black-turbaned imams are fakes. They are Zionist agents. At least with the Sunnis, the Scholar has to be very very knowledgeable of the Glorious Quran and the Hadiths, and he must MASTER the reading of the Holy Quran with TAJWEED (reading the Quran in Its complex form, and reading it the way Allah Almighty taught the Prophet).
Shias are no match with the Sunnis in this.I hope this helps, Insha'Allah.
Take care,
Osama Abdallah