Fake Pearls: A Collection of Inauthentic Statements of the Prophet of Islam  (Paperback, Syed Iqbal Zaheer)

A remarkable thing about Islam is the authenticity of its two sources: the Qur'an, and the Prophetic sayings. The Qur'an, of course, takes care of itself. Its inimitability guarantees that it will remain unaltered to the end of the world. But the Prophetic sayings are less inwardly defended. The early scholars of Islam, therefore, quickly set about documenting the trustworthy reports. But that was no guarantee against fresh incursions of the