The Meaning of the Hadith Scholars' Phrase: A Good, Strange Hadith
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Question:
May Allah reward you and bless you. This questioner, who has sent me a thousand and a thousand questions as well, says: Shaykh, may Allah preserve you, I am reading in the books of hadith, and I come across the phrase "a good, strange hadith." What is the meaning of this expression?
Answer:
This is one of al-Tirmidhi's (may Allah have mercy on him) expressions. "Good, authentic, good, strange" means that it is singular in one of two ways: either the chain is authentic and the other is good, or it is singular in that only one narrator in the original chain of transmission reported it, while the other chain was not reported by a single narrator alone, making it rare or famous or mass-transmitted. Yes.
May Allah reward you and bless you. This questioner, who has sent me a thousand and a thousand questions as well, says: Shaykh, may Allah preserve you, I am reading in the books of hadith, and I come across the phrase "a good, strange hadith." What is the meaning of this expression?
Answer:
This is one of al-Tirmidhi's (may Allah have mercy on him) expressions. "Good, authentic, good, strange" means that it is singular in one of two ways: either the chain is authentic and the other is good, or it is singular in that only one narrator in the original chain of transmission reported it, while the other chain was not reported by a single narrator alone, making it rare or famous or mass-transmitted. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 6559- معنى قول المحدثين: حديث حسن غريب - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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