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What is your opinion on the following Hadith on house flies?

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Please read this Creation, Science, Miracle, Quran & Religion. Book Exploring The Qur'an. The surface of flies is the last place you would expect to find antibiotics, yet that is exactly where a team of Australian researchers is concentrating their efforts. read more

The scientific evidence does not support the veracity of the fly wing hadith for the following reasons: 1. Bacteriophages are not limited to any specific wing of the fly. read more

Those little bastards can carry all sorts of unpleasantness that it's just not worth it to take your chances on. Quote the Orkin website: Diseases carried by house flies include typhoid, cholera and dysentery. Other diseases carried by house flies include salmonella, anthrax and tuberculosis. read more

Reply to the article ‘SUPERSTITIOUS HADITH AND SCIENCE’ Firstly, it does not logically follow that the presence of other diseases somehow disproves the presence of said antidote and nor does it prove that said antidote could not cure all the other harmful diseases. This is merely presupposition on the part of RI-S. read more

Hadith of singular transmission, such as the one in question, cannot either affirm or deny a matter involving the celestial world of angels and the like; 4) It must be recognized then that when a hadith of singular transmission is declared to be sahih (or authentic) in Bukhari or Muslim or the other collections of hadith, all that means is that in the opinion of Bukhari or Muslim, there is a 51% chance, ie. a simple probability that the Prophet actually said what is attributed to him. read more

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