Islam, The Hadith, & The Gospel of Jesus Christ

Over the last few months, I have written about the fallacy of the L.A. Church of Christ, Mormonism, & Jehovah’s Witness. These “off-branches” of Christianity are far from the truth of what true Christianity actually entails. Now I would like to avert our attention towards other false beliefs and religions that teach a completely different view on God. We’ll start by taking a look at Islam and what Christians can do in order to witness to a Muslim and share the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

One of the important views of Islam is the understanding of the hadith, which are the traditions of Muhammad. Other than the hadith, the Qur’an scriptures are of higher authority than the hadith for Muslims. The hadith contains thousands of records of the words and deeds of Muhammad and were recorded over a 200 year period after Muhammad’s death. These recordings had no eyewitnesses present or friends of eyewitness to account for Muhammad’s words unlike the Gospel which accounts of the life and teaching of Christ which was witnessed by thousands. The hadith was complied by al-Bukhari, who died in AD 870, which was 238 years after Muhammad’s death.


In sharing the Gospel with a Muslim, we must understand three truths that the Qur’an affirms: (1) God’s words and revelations cannot be altered. (2) Previous revelations were given to the Jews and the Christians: the Taurat (Torah), the Zabur (Psalms), and the Injil (Gospel). (3) These three revelations were still present with the Jews and the Christians during Muhammad’s lifetime (the hadith also affirms this fact).

What does this all mean? Simply this, if the Judeo-Christian scriptures were present – and uncorrupted – during Muhammad’s day, then we can express to Muslims, based on the authority of both the Qur’an and the hadith, to read the bible and read about the previous revelations about God and about Jesus’ claims of deity.