The Hadiths are compilations of things people reported that Muhammad said and did, yes?
Could not one Hadith, one such saying, be accurate and another be completely made up? And yet, they both made it into the compilation used by the Sunni, or the other compilation used by the Shiite? Both compilations could hold things which can be believed at face value, and things which are too extraordinary to accept as trustworthy, or, to use the better word, historical.
Islam, like Christianity, lacks in the historicity part.
Could not one Hadith, one such saying, be accurate and another be completely made up? And yet, they both made it into the compilation used by the Sunni, or the other compilation used by the Shiite? Both compilations could hold things which can be believed at face value, and things which are too extraordinary to accept as trustworthy, or, to use the better word, historical.
Islam, like Christianity, lacks in the historicity part.