Sunnis Followed the Sunnah of the Jews

Many Muslims are unaware of the degree of Jewish Talmudic influence that their Hadith corpus contains. The most prolific companion who is attributed with narrating the most Hadith by a wide margin is Abu-Hurayra ( أبو هريرة). Historically, he was believed to have been a companion of the prophet and is known for having the greatest number of Hadith attributed to him compared to any other companion, despite only being among the prophet for a couple of years before his passing. It is estimated that there are ~5,374 unique traditions attributed to him.

Also, most people are oblivious that Aub Hurayra was heavily influenced by someone by the name of Ka’b al-Ahbar (Ka’b the Rabbi), who apparently converted to Islam during the reign of Umar. It is documented that at first, Umar utilized Ka’b as a prominent position 3 to educate him on what was written in the Torah, but after he discovered that he was a liar and was narrating Hadith and attributing it to the prophet, he deposed him and threatened to exile him if he continued. 4 It is because of this that it is speculated that Ka’b was involved in the assassination of Umar, as there are narrations where Ka’b told Umar that his death was prophesized in the Torah and that he was going to die in three days, which happened. 5

Not surprisingly, the Sunni history books claim that during the reign of Mu’awiya, Ka’b’s integrity was reestablished.

Narrated Humaid bin ‘Abdur-Rahman that he heard Mu’awiya talking to a group of people from Quraish at Al-Madina, and on mentioning Ka’b Al-Ahbar, he said, “He was one of the most truthful of those who used to talk about the people of the Scripture. And indeed in spite of that we used to test him for lying.”