From the False Prophet Perception to the Negative Prophet Image: A Critical Approach on Using Of Scientific Informations For Understanding And Interpreting The Hadiths

The Quran exemplifies the Prophet Mohammad for all Muslims. Therefore, his words and behaviors has a great importance in the eyes of Muslims. These are must be understood and explicated correctly. Correct understanding and explication of Hadiths are largely depends on correct understanding of his personality and his historical mission. A methodology to understanding and explication the hadith, if used correctly, it is possible to reach accurate conclusions. Otherwise, the bad and the wrong conclusions were reached. One of them is to create a negative image about the Prophet. In this paper, misperceives that was done during the use of scientific data in explication and understanding the Hadith and that it caused the negative image of the Prophet was examined. During the research, the explications on the Hadiths that science interest were considered. These hadiths were selected by the sampling method. For the determination of comments on the Hadiths, some of the Hadith commentary books, some internet sites and other books that contains some commentaries on the Hadiths were examined. In the paper, the faulty and incorrect approaches on explication and understanding the Hadith were determined, categorized and evoluated. On the reasons of the false prophet perception was focused. The scholiast’s mistakes on explication and understanding the Hadith who was espouse this perception and erroneous mistakes that they made intentionally and the negative image of the Prophet that created with this was displayed. In the final section, the results obtained in the research were presented. Also, some proposals for prevention the errors and mistakes about understanding and explication the Hadith using scientific informations were presented.