The Ruling on Sending Unverified Hadiths
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, a questioner says: What about the one who spends time talking with his friends and sending some hadiths, especially on Friday, and these hadiths are either fabricated or not authentic, and he sends them via mobile phone or WhatsApp to groups, saying, “Send these hadiths if they encourage good and the like.”
Answer:
It is not permissible to act on what is sent through these means until one verifies it, from which reference he took it, from which source, merely mentioning a hadith without mentioning who traced it to its sources and who narrated it, this is never permissible to accept.
Honorable Shaykh, a questioner says: What about the one who spends time talking with his friends and sending some hadiths, especially on Friday, and these hadiths are either fabricated or not authentic, and he sends them via mobile phone or WhatsApp to groups, saying, “Send these hadiths if they encourage good and the like.”
Answer:
It is not permissible to act on what is sent through these means until one verifies it, from which reference he took it, from which source, merely mentioning a hadith without mentioning who traced it to its sources and who narrated it, this is never permissible to accept.
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/105 — archive.org (6:02)
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