Students of Knowledge Correcting Scholars in Authenticating and Weakening Hadiths

Question:
I say: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Sometimes we find some students of knowledge correcting the great scholars, authenticating a weak hadith that a scholar had weakened. Should we leave the statement of this great scholar and follow the statement of the student of knowledge, so that we do not become like what Imam Ahmad said: "I am amazed at a people who knew the isnad and its authenticity, yet they follow the opinion of Sufyan?"

Answer:
Knowledge is not taken from books, pages, and parchments; knowledge is taken from the imams and scholars.
If the one who authenticates or weakens a hadith studied under the imams and knew the study of isnads well, there is no harm. But if he is merely someone who reads books, taking from this and that, he is a follower of taqlid (following a scholar without knowing his evidence); he is currently capable of taqlid, and he is a blind follower who transmits what is in the books without knowing what is authentic and what is not. This is blind taqlid. The result is that it is not permissible to mess with hadiths and isnads except for scholars who received the knowledge of isnads from scholars and imams, mastered them, and preserved them accurately. As for a mere person who has a library of hadith books, reads through this and that, and authenticates and weakens, it is not permissible. This is speaking about Allah without knowledge. Yes.