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**pavilionnotebook** · 03-07-2012, 05:58 PM

The sciences of hadith is very very complicated. Daeef(weak) Hadith is NOT EQUAL to False or fabricated. Contrary to the common layman belief, The analysis of the 'chain of transmitters' ie the sanad is NOT the only criteria to accept or reject hadith. I shall quote from Reliance of the Traveller:

WEAK HADITHS
w48.1 Weak (da'if) is a term for any hadith with a chain of transmission containing a narrator whose memory was poor, one who was not trustworthy, not identified by name, or for other reasons. But weak cannot simply be equated with false. Were this the case, mere analysis of the transmitters would be the universal criterion for acceptance or rejection of particular rulings based on hadiths. While scholars do use this measure in upgrading the work of preceding generations of legal authorities, they have not employed it as a simplistic expedient to eliminate every piece of legal information that is connected with a weak hadith, because of various considerations.

-Reliance of the Traveller

03-07-2012, 05:58 PM	#2
pavilionnotebook Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 527 Senior Member	The sciences of hadith is very very complicated. Daeef(weak) Hadith is NOT EQUAL to False or fabricated. Contrary to the common layman belief, The analysis of the 'chain of transmitters' ie the sanad is NOT the only criteria to accept or reject hadith. I shall quote from Reliance of the Traveller: WEAK HADITHS w48.1 Weak (da'if) is a term for any hadith with a chain of transmission containing a narrator whose memory was poor, one who was not trustworthy, not identified by name, or for other reasons. But weak cannot simply be equated with false. Were this the case, mere analysis of the transmitters would be the universal criterion for acceptance or rejection of particular rulings based on hadiths. While scholars do use this measure in upgrading the work of preceding generations of legal authorities, they have not employed it as a simplistic expedient to eliminate every piece of legal information that is connected with a weak hadith, because of various considerations. -Reliance of the Traveller
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