Originally Posted by
Urban_Journalz
The generation of people who lived during the time of Muhammad (PBUH) and the two generations after those, are known as "The Best of Generations", therefore, the bulk of hadiths related in the Sunnah are trustworthy to those who have faith. The Salat is described in The Qur'an, but it's described further and in greater detail in The Sunnah. Don't think the Sunnah is "just a bunch of stories" because it's much, much more. The fact that other people recorded them, doesn't automatically make teh irrelevant. I've seem some questionable ones and those I properly discard, about 98% of the Sunnah is easily related to true Islam though. All that stuff about music being a bad thing is madness and a few other 'weak hadiths' have been spotted by the Islamic Schools of Thought.
Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is the best example of a Muslim that we have and it makes perfect sense for him (pbuh) to tell us to follow his example, a lot of which is laid down in The Sunnah, along with The Qur'an. Some Muslims don't follow the Sunnah, and that's entirely on them. Personally, I'd rather incorporate everything with the sheer intention of doing the right thing, so even if it wasn't what I was supposed to do, I still get an "A" for effort. Disputation over the fact that someone else wrote it, to me, is just a waste of time, time that we don't have, and that's passing faster than it used to.
I follow The Sunnah because a lot of it makes sense to me. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), through Allah and Gabriel (upon whom be peace), brought The Qur'an unto mankind, but his (pbuh) example is still just as important. Aisha (upon whom be peace) said that, "In watching Muhammad (PBUH), you can see The Qur'an in it's full performance." There's more than stories in there, there are prophecies, vivid descriptions that aren't in The Qur'an, but that build on what we've read in there and also priceless lessons.