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a high reward for a very small virtue was cause for rejection.
Each one of the narrators from the last person up to
the Holy Prophet Muhammad, praise and peace be upon him, must
have been by a person well known for his piety, virtue,
and honesty. Each one of the narrators must have been well known
for his learning, so that he might safely be presumed to
be competent both to understand the Hadith correctly and faithfully
deliver to others what he had heard. If a reporter
narrated a Hadith which ought to have been known and acted
upon by Muslims generally but was unknown, the reporter was
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Each one of the narrators from the last person up to
the Holy Prophet Muhammad, praise and peace be upon him, must
have been by a person well known for his piety, virtue,
and honesty. Each one of the narrators must have been well known
for his learning, so that he might safely be presumed to
be competent both to understand the Hadith correctly and faithfully
deliver to others what he had heard. If a reporter
narrated a Hadith which ought to have been known and acted
upon by Muslims generally but was unknown, the reporter was
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