The Weakened Hadiths in the Marginal Notes of Books and the Use of Them as Evidence

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Some of the hadiths read to us in this lesson are noted in some of the marginal notes as being weak. He asks: What is the guidance regarding this, and are they to be used as evidence?

Answer:
The scholars know more than you do. They did not mention them to deceive people. If they were not to be used as evidence, and if they did not have various chains that strengthen one another, they would not have mentioned them. So have trust in Allah, and then in the scholars. Do not have a bad opinion of them, like some of those who claim knowledge of hadith but do not know this matter. They merely look through the books and say, "We know the grades of hadith." Yet they did not narrate them from anyone, nor did they learn them from anyone; they only take them from the books. The hadiths are to be respected, and the scholars did not mention them to deceive or because they are ignorant and do not know.