id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1307 Criticism of hadith - Wikipedia .html text/html 17394 1534 71 Belief that Muslims must obey the Prophet and follow his sunnah comes from verses in the Quran such as 3:32, 5:92, 24:54, 64:12.[23] Hadith had been passed down by oral transmission until around the third century of Islam[24] and some questioned how closely they followed Muhammad's actual teachings and behavior in authenticity and spirit, but Al-Shafiʿi argued that Muslims must obey the hadith using a "simple proposition: having commanded believers to obey the Prophet, God must certainly have provided the means to do so."[25] According to Muslim Islamic scholar Jonathan A.C. Brown, 20th century Egyptian scholar Mahmoud Abu Rayya[108][109] noted the problem of transmission of hadith from allegedly reliable Companions of the Prophet. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1307.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1307.txt