For sure nobody forgot the year 1988 , when S.Rushdie composed his novel ‘The Satanic Verses’ . This novel created a lots of hue and cry among the Muslim community . Rushide’s execution was proclaimed and several attempts were taken by several individuals to kill him . He had to underground himself for a decade or more . Muslim community will never forgive Rushdie for releasing such horrendous novel .
Well , we know all of those stories . Now the burning question is , did Rushdie make those ‘satanic verses’ stories by his own or he just copied from some sources . InshAllah we will analysis this issue in this thread to identify the main culprits behind this horrific and nasty lies against the Islam .
Satanic Vesres is an expression coined by the historian Sir William Muirin reference to several verses delivered by the Prophet Muhammad as part of the Quran and later retracted. Muslims refer to the delivery and retraction of the two verses as the Gharaniq incident. Narratives involving these verses can be read in, among other places, the biographies of Muhammad by al-Waqidi, Ibn Sad,al-Tabari, and Ibn Ishaq (the latter as reconstructed by Alfred Guillaume.) .
This incident also been mentioned intensely in the following works :
Tafseer Dur al Manthur, Vol 4 page 367 Surah Hajj verse 52
Tafseer Gharaib al Quran, Vol 17 page 109 by Nizamuddin Nishapuri
Tafseer Qurtubi, Vol 12 page 80 by Muhammad Ibn Ahmed Qurtubi
Tafseer Mazhari (Urdu), Vol 8 page 94 By Qadhi Thanaullah Pani Patti
Ghanyatul Talibeen, by Shaykh Abdul Qadir Gilani, Page 172
Tafseer al-Kashaf, Vol. 3, Page 164
Ahkam al Qur’an, Vol. 3, Page 246
Tafseer al-Tabari, Vol. 17, Page 186
Irshad al Sari Sharh Sahih al-Bukhari by Qastalani, Vol. 7 page 194
Fatah ul Bari Sharh Sahih al-Bukhari, Vol. 8 page 349
Tafseer al-Jalalayn, page 338
Minhaj as Sunnah, Volume 2 page 409 by Ibn Tamiyah
Majma al-Zawadi, Volume 7 page 248 Tradition 11376
Al-Bazaar and Al-Tabarani and Ibn Mardaweh and al-Ziya’ have narrated through a chain of all trustworthy (Thiqa) narrators by the way of Saeed Ibn Jubayr, from Ibn Abbas that Prophet recited the words of Surah Najm in the following manner:
“Have you then considered the Lat and the Uzza And Manat, the third, the last? These are the lofty (idols), verily their intercession is sought after.”
Mushrakeen became delighted on hearing this from Holy Prophet and said that their idols have also been mentioned in Quran. Then Gebrail came and said to Prophet: “Recite same revelation and Quran which I have brought.” Prophet again recited the words:
“Have you then considered the Lat and the Uzza And Manat, the third, the last? These are the lofty (idols), verily their intercession is sought after.”
Gebrail said: “I had not brought these words, these are from Satan”. Then the verse 22:52 was revealed:
“And We did not send before you any messenger or prophet, but when he desired, the Shaitan made a suggestion respecting his desire; but Allah annuls that which the Shaitan casts, then does Allah establish His communications, and Allah is Knowing, Wise”.
Besdies this, Allamah Jalauddin Suyuti records similar versions of this incident from several other Sahih chains, for example:
“Ibn Jarir and Ibn al-Munder and Ibn Abi Hatim and Ibn Mardaweh have narrated through a Sahih chain by the way of Saeed Ibn Jubayr who said…”
“Ibn Jarir, Ibn Al Munzir and Ibn Abi Hatim narrated with a Sahih chain from Abi Al ‘Aliyah…”
“Abd bin Hamid and Ibn Jarir by the way of Yunis, from Ibn Shahab narrated:… with Mursal Sahih chain.”
Qadhi Thanaullah Pani Patti Uthmani in his commentary of the above mentioned verse adopted the questions based on casting doubts over the authenticity of the episode like his Imams but had no choice than to quote their statements as they deemed the episode to be true:
“…However the tradition we previously mentioned from Saeed bin Jubayr by Bazar, Ibn Mardwaeh and Tabarani is indeed successive [Mutawatur] and strong [Qawi]. Ibn Hajar Asqalani has stated that from the abundance of traditions reported, it is deemed that there is some truth in it…”
The actual statement of Imam Ibn Hajar Asqalani which Qadhi Thanaullah referred to is found in Fatah al-Bari 8:439 .
Not only these but Imam Ibn Abi Bakar al-Haythami is also among those Sunni scholars, who deemed the incident to be authentic [Sahih] as he stated after recording the tradition [Majma al-Zawadi 7:248 # 11376]:
“Al-Bazar and Tabarani narrated it and they added ‘{the penalty of a Mighty Day}’ in the day of Badr, the narrators are the narrators of Sahih.”
Imam Ibn Tamiyah also believed that Holy Prophet recited Satanic verses and in this regard he cites the testimony of his beloved Salaf. He writes in Minhaj Sunnah , 2:409:
“What occurred with suratul Najm and its recitation ‘These are the lofty (idols), verily their intercession is sought after’ is well known amongst the Salaf; that this was recited by Rasulullah and then Allah abrogated it.”
Now we are able to identify the real culprits behind the creation and propagation of this ‘satanic verses’ story. Our venerated Imams who gave us the Hadiths , Sunnah the Sirahs and the Shariah laws are the real criminals for this Satanic invention against the Qur’an and the Prophet . The Fatwa of execution was there for Salman Rushdie for writing a novel only but now what should be your Fatwa for those Imams who are the real culprits behind this conspiracy against Islam ?
