Hadith
Sahih Muslim
'A'isha's report that the Qur'an originally specified "ten known breastfeedings" to establish a kinship-by-nursing bar to marriage, later abrogated to "five known breastfeedings," and that the Prophet died while the "five" ruling was still being recited as Qur'an by some. A starker case than the verse of stoning report, since it describes textual instability persisting up to the Prophet's death itself; the report is accepted as sound (sahih) by Muslim's own criteria.
Content discussing this hadith
- Research Paper
Islam: History, Authority and the Development of Islamic Tradition
A historical-critical review of the Qur'an and Hadith as sources of religious authority in Islam, distinguishing established fact, scholarly consensus, majority and minority opinion, disputed claims, and theological interpretation at every step.
- Article
Islam: A Reader's Guide to the Qur'an, Hadith and Early Islamic History
A plain-language companion to Revert Way's academic review of the Qur'an and Hadith: the same evidence, sources, and arguments, with every technical term and historical figure introduced on first use.