The Chapter on the Critique and Vindication of Narrators and Who Has the Right to Do So

Question:
He says: Is the chapter on the critique and vindication of narrators closed, or is it open? And if it is open, who is the scholar who has the right?

Answer:
The critique and vindication of narrators is a science that exists, but who are the men who know the critique and vindication of narrators, where is it practiced, and what is its scope? As for us explaining things about people, backbiting people, and saying this is critique and vindication, that is not a valid expression in the science of hadith, in the science of the chain of narration, so that one knows where this hadith came from, what its chain of narration is, and who its narrators are, so that we know that it is authentic and established from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him).
This is the place of the critique and vindication of narrators in the science of hadith. As for taking talebearing, incitement, and people's negligence as the critique and vindication of narrators, this is not the critique and vindication of narrators. This is only critique. We call this critique and we do not call it vindication. Yes.