Let me interject my 2 cents into this conversation, we as Muslims should know about these things but my objection is this methodology of preaching the deen that if you don't do this and this and this you will end up in hell and all these bad things will happen to you.
It should be about how beautiful and wonderful Islam is and making people want to do good deeds for the sake of the creators happiness and wanting to be a better person in this life and look forward to its reward in the hear after.
I remember after reading the entire Quran with word for word translation and tafsir followed by reading and then finishing the entire Sahih Bhukari and I mean all the volumes cover to cover. I felt it was almost impossible for even the worst or the worst Muslim to end up in hell because of all the love, compassion and mercy endowed upon us is massive. And there a so so so many ways in which Allah is willing and does forgives us again and again for our wrong doings.
And while we are on the topic of Hadith
CHAI THERE ARE LOTS OF AHADDES WHCH IS CALLED AHADEESAY QUDSI THT HUKAM FROM ALLAH
AND ONLY THOSE AHADEES WILL BE CONSIDERED NOT AUTHENTIC IF IT CONTRADICT WITH HOLY QURAN
PLEASE DONT SPREAD WRONG IDEAS
There is no such thing as Hadith al qudsi, all of Allah s.w.t commands and what he wanted to say to us is in the Quran, if it's not in the Quran, then nauzbillah the Prophet didn't do his job properly of relaying Allah's message . The problem we take the Hadith and sunnah as one and also we take the Hadith as holy scripture as in word of God. Hadith does not add anything to the Quran and it doesn't take anything away from the Quran and in the end of the day is work of man and there is always room for error.
The hadith is more or less a record of the times and life of the Prophet s.a.w. How he lived, what were his likes and dislikes, how he interacted with people, how he interacted with his friends and family, how he carried out his duties, how he went about his daily life. And is an invaluable source for us to know our beloved Prophet
Problem is our clergy has turned every word of hadith as a strict commandment to be followed when that is clearly not the case. For example lets take the most talked about subject. The beard, there is absolutely no obligation for a Muslim to keep a beard, but if he chooses to out of love for the Prophet because he also had one, then there is no harm in it either. But some of our clergy has turned into something like a basic tenet of Islam that a Muslim male MUST have a beard.
