What is the ruling on one who denies a report of a single narrator?
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Question:
The questioner says: Does one who denies a report of a single narrator from the hadith, while knowing that it is authentic and not subject to figurative interpretation, become a disbeliever?
Answer:
There is scholarly disagreement regarding the report of a single narrator. If he has studied the disagreement and followed those who hold that the report of a single narrator has a ruling different from that of a mass-transmitted report, and different from the ruling of a mass-transmitted report, this is a matter of independent legal reasoning. Yes.
The questioner says: Does one who denies a report of a single narrator from the hadith, while knowing that it is authentic and not subject to figurative interpretation, become a disbeliever?
Answer:
There is scholarly disagreement regarding the report of a single narrator. If he has studied the disagreement and followed those who hold that the report of a single narrator has a ruling different from that of a mass-transmitted report, and different from the ruling of a mass-transmitted report, this is a matter of independent legal reasoning. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم من أنكر خبر الآحاد؟ لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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