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Were Hadith Collectors All Persian Speakers?
Q# 7. The authors of all the six (6) books of ‘Ahadīth’ [Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Sunan Abu Dawood, Jami` at-Tirmidhi, Al-Sunan al-Sughra and Sunan ibn Majah] are found to be the Persian speaking, followers of Imam Ahmad ibne Hanbal, politically sympathetic to the Umayyad Dynasty and against the Abbasid Dynasty, and intellectually opposed to the Bait-ul-Hikmah University of Baghdad established by Abbasid King Mamun-ur-Rasheed in 815 AD. Was it mere a coincidence or an organized campaign to author all the seven (7) books of Hadīth within 100 years during the period 815 CE to 915 CE when the Bait-ul-Hikmah University was reviving the era of reason and rational knowledge of mathematics, natural science, philosophy, medicine, art, architecture and engineering thereby challenging the traditional dogmatism?
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