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How2BeMuhaddith, page : 22
The significance of False Hadith
The Scholars of Hadith, starting with the companions of the Prophet and their children,
were so ingenious in setting up a methodology to verify with witnesses that every Hadith
reported second hand, not directly from the Prophet, is cornered (time stamping it at
every stage of transmission, and constituting seven methodologies of delivering a Hadith
from one person to another) and recorded including the integrity and biography of the
transmitter and his relationship to the upstream and downstream transmissions.
This methodology was not only subjected to the good, honorable people, but also the
liars. This indeed was an ingenious way to record every false statement ever said about
the Prophet and also who said it, and entering it into dictionaries of Liars and dictionaries
of false Ahadith. If they gathered everything about the false Hadith, imagine the
authentic ones!
Methodology
So, our students of Hadith should focus on Hadith terminology and Collection 1. They
do not have the authority to touch Collection 2 because they do not have the capability of
The Scholars of Hadith, starting with the companions of the Prophet and their children,
were so ingenious in setting up a methodology to verify with witnesses that every Hadith
reported second hand, not directly from the Prophet, is cornered (time stamping it at
every stage of transmission, and constituting seven methodologies of delivering a Hadith
from one person to another) and recorded including the integrity and biography of the
transmitter and his relationship to the upstream and downstream transmissions.
This methodology was not only subjected to the good, honorable people, but also the
liars. This indeed was an ingenious way to record every false statement ever said about
the Prophet and also who said it, and entering it into dictionaries of Liars and dictionaries
of false Ahadith. If they gathered everything about the false Hadith, imagine the
authentic ones!
Methodology
So, our students of Hadith should focus on Hadith terminology and Collection 1. They
do not have the authority to touch Collection 2 because they do not have the capability of