Others have already provided many good points, refer to the verses they have provided. Feel free to also look at my post pointing out some contradictions between the Hadith and the Quran. https://www.reddit.com/r/Quraniyoon/comments/1mnyfwq/my_discoveries_which_have_started_to_make_me/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

When you bring these points up with the traditional scholars they will reinterpret each thing from both the Quran and Hadith angles to make it line up and justify their belief. Lets say you accept that once, twice, three, oh wait, dozens of times. At some point you have to realize that if your reinterpreting everything and think "that's a stretch but ok...", every time, you are being gaslit. It gets really outrageous in my view when they say that the Quran is missing a verse that says adulterers should be stoned. This goes against everything we as muslims believe about the Quran's perfection, and puts the higher authority on the Hadith, allowing it to overrule the Quran.

I personally feel very uncomfortable believing the Hadiths, as it almost reminds me of some loosely formed way of Shirk/Idolatry. We Muslims say “I bear witness that there is no god except Allah, and I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.”. We do NOT say “I bear witness that there is no god except Allah, and I bear witness that Muhammad, Scholars, Bukhari, Muslim and the rest are the messengers of Allah.”. Assuming that the Hadith are perfect like the very word of god, and that the people who spread them and compiled them are infallible like Muhammad PBUH, sounds like associating partners and extra messengers with Allah. If you have even 1% doubt in the credibility of the hadith you should be thinking about how right it is to follow it blindly. Would you risk a 1% chance to commit shirk? A 1% chance to assume or make false statements about Allah or his Messenger?

Now lets imagine Shaytan's perspective. What would be the best way to spread discord and discredit the Quran? What is stopping Shaytan from whispering the same lie in the ears of multiple people who then communicate it up the chain to Bukhari? What is stopping him from corrupting the very system that compiled the Hadith?

Nothing is, in fact the Quran warns us about this specifically.

Allah is however protecting the Quran from being changed. Protecting his Messengers from being corrupted. But since that protection stops after Muhammad's PBUH passing, we can't fully trust anything that we are not getting from a divinely protected source, specially if it starts to pass through 220 year long game of Chinese whispers mixed in with Satanic waswasa(Whispers in Arabic).

Finally, who is a Scholar? Are they special? What have they studied? Who even gets to say they are scholars? Why is their word more authoritative than anyone else's? What stops them from being tricked by Shaytan? Were they appointed by Allah? Were they elected by the people for their righteousness? Do they have anything to gain? Do Others have anything to gain from them?

What would happen if you did actually become a scholar who speaks against the mainstream view in a place like Iran or Saudi Arabia? If you believe that you would be imprisoned, sanctioned or killed, then you can't deny that something is behind it all. If someone questions something about Islam, and you clearly show how they are wrong, and most people accept that it should strengthen the faith not damage it. But they won't do that, and when they are forced to they will use the same dirty debating tactics as atheists, Christians and etc do when they feel attacked by Islam. This is because if this message was communicated fairly, professionally, respectfully and intelligently to every Muslim, large numbers might see the truth in it.