@ Yunus
I am on your side.
Btw, interestingly, there is a Hadith in Muslim's book where the prophet orders his followers NOT to write Hadith, and only write Quran (pretty ironic to find this Hadith in a Hadith book!)
**//hadith.al-islam.com/Display/Display.asp?hnum=5326&doc=1**
Also, the first movement of rejecting, at least, huge parts of Hadith was by the Mutazilte sect which appeared about 100 years after the prophet's death (and they were vehemently attacked by the Sunni sect).
**//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu'tazili**
There are 3 types of Hadith (Mutawatir, Mashhour and Ahad).. The Mutaziltes rejected all Hadiths except Mutawatir (which is a tiny part of Hadith).
The first type is diffusely recurrent (mutawatir) reports ? those that have come down to later generations through a large number of chains of narration, involving diverse transmitters such that it is virtually impossible that all these people, living in different localities and espousing (at times radically) different views, would come together, fabricate the exact same lie and attribute it to the Prophet of Islam or any other authority. A large number of narrators is not a sufficient criterion for authenticating a report because people belonging to some sect or party may have an interest in fabricating reports that promote their agendas. The power of this mode of transmission, tawatur, rests on both the number and diversity of narrators at each stage of transmission. On the other hand, the authenticity of the second type of reports, those which do not meet the criteria for tawatur, is considered speculative.
PS. I usually get my information from Arabic sources, but I found this in English for you:
there are over two million hadiths. Two of the most reliable books on hadiths are the one of Bukhari and the one of Muslim. The hadiths contained in the former are reported to have been selected from among 600,000 and in the latter this number is 300,000. The one of Davud contains hadiths selected from among 500,000, the one of Malik Muvatta, founder of a religious sect, contains hadiths selected from among 100,000 and the one of Musnad contains hadiths selected from among 750,000.
**://www.quranic.org/quran_article/4/hadiths_and_sunna.htm**
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