You mentioned that one should not take the verification of hadiths except from specialists; are there any of them in this era?

Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, you mentioned (may Allah preserve you) that one should not take the verification of hadiths except from specialists, and they are the people of hadith. Are they known people in this era so that we can take from them?

Answer:
By Allah, we do not know anyone in this era. But the people of hadith are those who studied the narrations and the narrators, who studied the narrations and the narrators, and who knew them and knew the chains of transmission. These are the people of hadith. As for merely transferring from books, coming and transferring, saying so-and-so said this and so-and-so said that, this is not, this is not a hadith scholar. This means he is merely a transmitter, and he may transmit incorrectly. They often transmit incorrectly. So the transmitter is not considered a hadith scholar; he is considered a transmitter and may err frequently.