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What is the position of the innovators regarding the detailed distinction between mutawatir (mass-transmitted) and ahad (limited chain) hadiths?

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What is the position of the innovators regarding the detailed distinction between mutawatir (mass-transmitted) and ahad (limited chain) hadiths?

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The innovators say that one argues with mutawatir (mass-transmitted) hadiths. Some of them say that one does not argue with the Sunnah at all, neither mutawatir (mass-transmitted) nor ahad (limited chain). Some say that one argues with mutawatir (mass-transmitted) hadiths in matters of creed, but does not argue with ahad (limited chain) hadiths in matters of creed. This is an error. Whatever is authentic from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) is to be used as evidence. Mutawatir (mass-transmitted) is what a group narrates from a similar group, from the beginning of the narration, where it is impossible for them to conspire to lie, from a similar group, from the beginning of the chain to its end.
As for ahad (limited chain), it is what is not so; it is what is narrated by one, two, or three. The famous, the rare, and the strange: what is narrated by one is strange (gharib); what is narrated by two is rare (aziz); what is narrated by three is famous (mashhur); what is narrated by more than three is mutawatir (mass-transmitted). Mutawatir (mass-transmitted) hadiths are few. If we were to act only by them, little would remain. There are few mutawatir (mass-transmitted) hadiths in the Sunnah, and not everything that is said to be mutawatir (mass-transmitted) is actually mutawatir (mass-transmitted). Some have written books on them and collected them, but there is a point of consideration regarding them. Most of them are subject to consideration. Most of them are subject to consideration. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 53 - ما قول المبتدعة في التفريق بين الحديث المتواتر والآحاد بالتفصيل؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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