Q wrote:But to reduce the importance of and counter the above declaration made by the Holy Prophet another statement has also been narrated from the Holy Prophet on the authority of Abu Haraira whose reliability has remained always questionable. His narration is that the Holy Prophet said:
‘I have left among you two things : if you adhere to them both, you shall not go astray after me; ie., the Book of God and my Sunnah.’
The text itself does not stand a sound critical scrutiny. There is no doubt that the Sunnah in the sense of the Holy Prophet’s Sayings , actions and endorsement has the same authoritative status as the Qur’an, but the question is that the Qur’an was in a written form and distinctly recorded to be referred to while the Holy Prophet’s Sunnah was not then recorded in a distinct form to be adhered to when disputes would arise. On the contrary the disputants used to take advantage of the unrecorded Sunnah against each other. Therefore, to declare such a controversial source to have the same authoritative status as the Qur’an would not only be meaningless but would mean encouraging controversies . The tern Itrat or Ahl al-bayt was well defined and known to everybody as the embodiment of the teachings of the Holy Prophet. In short, to follow the Sunnah as it is in our hands will lead to controversies and errors but to follow the Itrat along with the Qur’an would mean following the Kitab and Sunnah in its true sense which would save the adherents from going astray and committing errors. Therefore, we shall leave the tradition of Abu Huraira to himself and his followers
Neither was quran recorded properly . The part in red happened with quran too. There was a disagreement over the copies of quran. Isnt it surprising you guys can only pick the faults in others but at the same time cant see the same faults with what you believe? Going by your logic quran too should be discarded. All these excuses are an desperate attempt to acquit Muhhamad of the horrible crimes that he committed and avoid answering the hadiths which expose and show us that he was a fake prophet.