8 - The reformer says:

"In order to make sure the correctness of hadiths, Hadrat al-Bukhari traveled through Islamic countries in Asia and Africa for many years. At nights, he used to get up ten or fifteen times and record the hadiths which he remembered together with their narrators. He is said to have memorized three hundred thousand hadiths two hundred thousand of which were not sahih. He understood that only seven or eight thousand of the six hundred thousand hadiths which he had gathered were sahih. This fact shows how wholly religious knowledge is mixed up. Observing al-Bukhari's way of study, some European scholars say that even the hadiths he selected [as sahih] are doubtful. You can imagine how other hadith books are."

By starting with six hundred thousand and reducing the number of sahih hadiths to seven thousand and then even to zero, this reformer shamelessly copies this idea from Europeans. If, instead of taking information about hadiths from Europeans, he had taken it from the specialists of this knowledge, for sure he would not have said so. The knowledge of hadith, which is like a boundless sea, is a miracle of Islam. This great sea will not become turbid with few stones thrown by the enemies of Islam. If there were none of the innumerous proofs showing that Islam is the right and glorious religion, the dumbfounding work of the scholars of 'ilm al-hadith would suffice to show it. Their books are so many that their catalogues alone fill up libraries. These scholars make up an army of thousands, an army of ikhlas and specialization that has attained Allahu ta'ala's help. The intellect and mind of REFORMERS IN ISLAM, who run after material advantages and temporary, loathsome pleasures, cannot comprehend the sublime cause of this effort. The study of hadiths and their narrators was dependent upon so subtle and so numerous principles that a special branch of knowledge called usul al-hadith was established. In order to be able to write a hadith down in a book, it had to be heard from a person who had an entirely dependable reason, powerful memory, righteousness and honesty, and he had to have heard it from such another person, and thus it had to have been heard every time from dependable, trustworthy narrators back to Rasulullah ('alaihi 's-salam). Above each hadith its narrators were listed one by one. Do Ibn Taymiyya, 'Abduh, Mawdudi and the like, who cannot comprehend the superiority of the Ahl as-Sunnat scholars, and ignorant modernist REFORMERS IN ISLAM, who cannot comprehend Islam, presume that such dependable hadith books are like history books? The hadith scholars knew, as it were a miracle, that modernist reformers would later spring up to attack the Hadith, and they wrote in detail the biographies of all as-Sahaba (radi-Allahu 'anhum) and many of the Tabiin who had reported hadiths. Usud al-ghaba, Al-isti'ab, Al-isaba and similar great books of biographies hold places in libraries all over the world. Can another person be shown besides Muhammad ('alaihi 's-salam) for memorizing each of whose sayings life-sacrificing efforts have been given and the importance and significance of whose personality and life affected his companions and caused all their lives, biographies and superiorities to be transferred into books? Through words far from knowledge, the religion reformers shamelessly want to bury this Glorious Star, who shines in the sky of honor, under the soil where the wastepipes of their disputes end.