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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Who took charge of preserving the hadith?

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Question:
He says: We know that Allah the Exalted took charge of preserving His noble Book, so who took charge of preserving the hadith?

Answer:
Preserving the hadith is part of preserving the Qur'an, because the hadith explains the Qur'an. Since it explains the Qur'an, it falls under the statement
Indeed, it is We who sent down the Qur'an and indeed, We will be its guardian.إِنَّا نَحْنُ نَزَّلْنَا الذِّكْرَ وَإِنَّا لَهُ لَحَافِظُونَ
[Al-Hijr 15:9]
"the remembrance," which includes the Qur'an and the Prophetic Sunnah, because it is the speech of the One who
(3) Nor does he speak from [his own] inclination. (4) It is not but a revelation revealed,يَنطِقُ عَنِ الْهَوَىٰ إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا وَحْيٌ يُوحَىٰ
[An-Najm 53:3-4]
. Those who took charge of preserving the Sunnah are the hadith scholars, the imams, the preservers, and the narrators who exerted an effort that is not hidden. They recorded the authentic hadiths, pointed out the weak hadiths and the fabricated hadiths, and clarified the ones inserted among them. This is part of Allah's preservation of the noble Qur'an. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، من الذي تولى حفظ الحديث؟ #فتاوى الفوزان — youtube.com

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