"Saheefah Hammam - Forging Ahadith Now

By: Hafiz Azhar A. Syed

Date: Friday, 18 February 2011, 6:54 am
SAHEEFAH OF HAMMAM BIN MUNABBEH
[Saheefah means Scroll.]
Saheefah Hammam ibn Munabbih is supposedly the earliest known collection of Ahadith compiled by
the 8th century scholar Hammam ibn Munabbih. No one knew its whereabouts until the 20th century!
Strangely, Dr Muhammad Hameedullah of India/France suddenly came up with its published
“translation” in English in 1994. Muhammad Hameedullah of Deccan, India (1908-2002) spent 50
years in France after the fall of Deccan to India in 1948 and exiled himself to France. He moved to the
USA in 1998 and lived with his brother's great grand-daughter until his death in 2002.
In his death confessions he admitted that he was the chief instrument in fabricating the said Saheefah.
Mullah Ikhwan Sarhadi Afindi applauds Hameedullah's great “discovery” (in Paris) as the earliest work
of Hadith. He says, “The Saheefah Hammam ibn Munabbih was prepared by Hazrat Abu Hurairah for
his pupil Hammam ibn Munabbih. Abu-Hurairah died in 58 A.H./677 CE, Hammam ibn Munabbih
died in 101 A.H./719 CE.”
It consists of 138 Ahadith that can also be found in Sahah Sittah with similar content and chain of
narrators.
I visited Hameedullah in Nov 2002 along with some friends to meet with him and to check on his
health. During the visit, he asked us to pray for his forgiveness. Haeedullah said that he had done the
forgery in good faith and only when he was losing his faculties due to senility. He admitted
plagiarizing from the SAHAH SITTAH.
His intentions? "To provide some credibility to the Hadith literature that is being challenged by some
Quranic voices."
Where was the Arabic original discovered? “In the basement of my house in Paris.”
Sir, where is the original Arabic scroll? He answered, "I don't know why I burned it."
Why did it remain hidden for 12 centuries and how did it end up in Paris? Why wasn't it translated by
anyone before? Why didn't anyone hear about it or mention it at all through these centuries? "I don't
know", he said. [Think and reflect!]
Now the English 'Saheefah' is very much there and Mullahs are using it to mislead people.
PS: Some Mullahs have recently claimed that Dr Hameedullah had discovered the scroll in 1960 in
Paris.
By: Hafiz Azhar A. Syed"

Kindly share your views about it.

Dear Brother
Assalam o alaikum
I don't believe in this story due to the following reasons:
1. Dr. Hameedullah's level is so high that we cannot accuse him just on the basis of claim of a person.
Who is this guy? Does he have any proof of his claim? Was there any witness of his conversation with
Dr.? Had he recorded the conversation?
2. Another scholar Dr. Rifat Fauzi has conducted research on the manuscripts of Sahifa. See the
following link. Is he also a forger?
http://majles.alukah.net/showthread.php?t=20872
Dr. Rifat has consulted another manuscript available in Cairo (this was not consulted by Dr.
Hameedullah). He has given photos of that manuscript. Attached please find his method of research
along with such photos. For furhter details, Dr. Rifat can also be consulted.
3. Two manuscripts were consulted by Dr. Hameedullah of this Sahifa: one in Berlin and other in
Damascus. Third one is in Cairo. Copies could be obtained from the respective libraries. I'll ask one of
my teachers about exact name and address of such libraries and will provide you soon. Full chain of
people from whom the document is transmitted is available here:
http://www.ahlalhdeeth.com/vb/showthread.php?t=28417
4. The claim of this author of burning the scroll is wrong as Dr. Hameedullah did not have any such
scroll. He used the both manuscripts available in such libraries.
I hope this detail is enough to falsify the claim of this guy that Where was the Arabic original
discovered? “In the basement of my house in Paris.”
Sir, where is the original Arabic scroll? He answered, "I don't know why I burned it."
Why did it remain hidden for 12 centuries and how did it end up in Paris? Why wasn't it translated by
anyone before? Why didn't anyone hear about it or mention it at all through these centuries? "I don't
know", he said. [Think and reflect!]

wassalaam
Mubashir