"And if Allah pleases He would certainly make you a single nation."
The Qur'an, chapter an-Nahl, Verse 93

Many researchers in noble traditions of the Prophet of Islam have, since long ago, realized that there exist wide differences between some of these traditions themselves, and also between them and the verses of the divine Book. The result was that some of the past scholars decided to account for and interpret these differences in order to remove objections to the Prophet and his traditions, and they wrote books entitled: "Ta'wil mukhtalif al-hadith" (11),"Bayan mushkil al-hadith"(12) "Bayn mushkilat al-athar"(13) etc., which roused the hostility of such critics as atheists and Christian- missionaries, and a group of orientalists so that by reliance on the contradictions and differences of these traditions, they could reproach the Prophet of Islam and deride and criticize his religion. But both groups were ignorant of the fact that the great collection of traditions, especially those which contradict each other, have not been written in the same style to make them confident that all of them have come from and have been stated exactly by the Prophet so that these could be subjected to a single general survey. They are a collection of several different traditions, which have reached us from various narrators. A researcher must first classify them in connection with the type of narrators. For example, the traditions related to 'A'ishah Umm al-Mu'minin Anas(14) Abu Hurayrah(15) 'Abd Allah ibn 'Umar (16) must each be collected separately and compared in conjunction with the traditions of other narrators who have quoted from the