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were old enough to understand the full importance of the quotation.
7. A quotation which was inconsistent with established historical facts was rejected.
8. The description of a tradition sanctioning a very severe punishment for the
slightest fault or promising a high reward for a very small virtue was cause for
rejection.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. If a reporter narrated a Hadith which ought to have been known and acted upon
by Muslims generally but was unknown, the reporter was alone in narrating it, it
was discarded.
7. A quotation which was inconsistent with established historical facts was rejected.
8. The description of a tradition sanctioning a very severe punishment for the
slightest fault or promising a high reward for a very small virtue was cause for
rejection.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. If a reporter narrated a Hadith which ought to have been known and acted upon
by Muslims generally but was unknown, the reporter was alone in narrating it, it
was discarded.