Difference Between Contents of Nabuwwah/Resalah and Contents of Quran/Hadith

Munkareen e Hadith are confusing contents of Nabuwwah with contents of Quran and Hadith which are functions of Resalah/Nabuwwah. Allah has clearly differentiated between contents of Nabuwwah/ Resalah and contents of Quran/ Hadith. Allah says:

 “O you who have believed, believe in Allah and His Messenger and the Book that He sent down upon His Messenger and the Scripture which He sent down before. And whoever disbelieves in Allah , His angels, His books, His messengers, and the Last Day has certainly gone far astray” (al-nisaa-136).

This verse demands Eman/ faith not only in Allah’s Messenger/ ‘Rasool’ but also in the Book He revealed unto His ‘Rasool’; that means Eman/Faith in contents of Resalah is something different from Eman/Faith in contents of Quran. Similarly Quran says:

  " .....So believe in Allah and His Messenger/ Rasool, the unlettered Nabi, who believes in Allah and His words, and follow (wattabiuhu)) him that you may be guided (al-aaraf-158).

 This verse too describes that believing in Nabi ﷺ is something different from following the Nabi ﷺ. That means Eman/Faith in contents of Nabuwwah is different from Eman/Faith in contents of Hadith (sayings/actions of our Nabi ﷺ).  

The Contents of Nabuwwah are relating to Eman/ Faith. Any person, even out of ignorance, cannot deny Eman/ faith; if he does so he becomes 'kafir'. But if any person denies any verse of Quran or any hadith- due to the fact that he does not know about existence of such verse or hadith- he does not become kafir. This is the difference between contents of Nabuwwah/ Resalah and contents of Quran and Hadith.

The contents of Nabuwwah are to have Eman/faith that Muhammad ﷺ is Allah's last Nabi ﷺ; that he ﷺ receives wahi from Allah through angel (al-shu,ra-52); that he ﷺ interprets Quranic Words through the wahi he ﷺ recieves (al-qiyamah-19); that sayings/actions of Nabi ﷺ are interpretations of Quran (al-aa,raf-203) and as such are part of Deen. Contents of Resalah are to have faith that Muhammad ﷺ is Allah's Rasool; he ﷺ receives wahi from Allah directly (al-Jin-26;27) or through the angel; he ﷺ received Quran i.e. Allah's Words from Allah through wahi; Quran is guidance for humanity till Qiyamah.

It means contents of Nabuwwah and Resalah are relating to Faith/ Eman; denial of these contents of Nabuwwah and Resalah is kufr. It may be appreciated contents of Nabuwwah and Resalah are included in the contents of Quran and Hadith (contents of Quran and Hadith are actually functions of Resalah and Nabuwwah respectively). But there are some differences between the two; all contents of Nabuwwah/Resalah are included in the contents of Quran/Hadith but all contents of Quran/Hadith are not included in the contents of Resalah/Nabuwwah. The contents of Nabuwwah and Resalah are only relating to Eman/faith but contents of Quran and Hadith are also relating to actions. Denial of contents of Quran and Hadith- is also kufr; that means denial of contents of Quran (after knowing its existence), and Hadith (which is believed to be rightly attributed to our Nabi s.a.w.w.) is kufr though such denial may not be denial of Nabuwwah and Resalah. 

 As mentioned above, contents of Quran and Hadith are functions of Resalah and Nabuwwah; out of these contents of Quran and Hadith, some are relating to contents of Resalah/Nabuwwah. It means contents of Resalah/ Nabuwwah are such functions of Resalah/Nabuwwah which are relating to only Eman. It may be appreciated all functions of Resalah/ Nabuwwah which are related to Eman are not contents of Resalah/Nabuwwah; there are also some other functions of Resalah/Nabuwwah which are relating to Eman but are not contents of Resalah/Nabuwwa. Some of these other functions of Resalah/Nabuwwah relating to Eman have been described in verse al-nisa-136 mentioned above; these are: having Eman/Faith in Allah, in Quran, in Messengers, previous Divine Books, in Angels, in AAkhirah. The list also includes having Faith in the Messenger/ Muhammad s.a.w.w. but having faith in Messenger/Muhammad s.a.w.w. relates to contents of Resalah.