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Quran, the second source of doctrine and legislation in Islam is the Ahadith (utterances)
of the Holy Prophet (saww) himself. A very large number of collections of the
Prophet's words thus appear under the title of Ahadith, and thousands of Ahadith
and traditions attributed to the Holy Prophet are recorded in the Ahadith books.
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amazing remarkable point here is the fact that all these utterances of the Prophet
(Ahadith) which were also in pure Arabic language like that of Quran, and the
Prophet whose tongue would recite the Arabic Quran, bore no resemblance whatsoever
to the Quran. What must be heavily stressed overhere is the disparity between
these two groups of texts - Quran and Ahadith - from a literary and stylistic
point of view. It would be unthinkable to compare the style of Quran with that
of the Ahadith. This itself is a convincing proof that the Quran originated from
a source other than the mind of the Prophet.
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