Guidance on the statement: There is discussion regarding the hadith "There is no harm and no reciprocating harm"
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, regarding the hadith "There is no harm and no reciprocating harm," you stated that there is discussion about it. How can there be discussion when Imam Ahmad, who is one of the hadith scholars, narrated it, as did Ibn Majah? I hope you will clarify this.
Answer:
Ibn Majah and the authors of the Sunan collections did not commit to including only authentic hadiths in their books. Who mentioned this? For example, al-Bukhari, Muslim, Ibn Khuzaymah, and Ibn Hibban. In fact, their books contain authentic, good, and weak hadiths. As for fabricated hadiths, they do not include them. They also mention the Sunnah.
They mention the chain of narration from beginning to end. People must know this chain and the narrators in it, and they determine its ruling from its context and its chain. It may be weak even if an Imam narrated it; it may be weak even if an Imam narrated it; even if an Imam narrated it. This is because those other than the authors of the authentic collections did not commit to narrating only authentic hadiths. Rather, they write them with the chain of narration, and the scholars know the chain of this hadith: is it authentic or not?
Honorable Shaykh, regarding the hadith "There is no harm and no reciprocating harm," you stated that there is discussion about it. How can there be discussion when Imam Ahmad, who is one of the hadith scholars, narrated it, as did Ibn Majah? I hope you will clarify this.
Answer:
Ibn Majah and the authors of the Sunan collections did not commit to including only authentic hadiths in their books. Who mentioned this? For example, al-Bukhari, Muslim, Ibn Khuzaymah, and Ibn Hibban. In fact, their books contain authentic, good, and weak hadiths. As for fabricated hadiths, they do not include them. They also mention the Sunnah.
They mention the chain of narration from beginning to end. People must know this chain and the narrators in it, and they determine its ruling from its context and its chain. It may be weak even if an Imam narrated it; it may be weak even if an Imam narrated it; even if an Imam narrated it. This is because those other than the authors of the authentic collections did not commit to narrating only authentic hadiths. Rather, they write them with the chain of narration, and the scholars know the chain of this hadith: is it authentic or not?
Source
شرح بلوغ المرام من أدلة الأحكام [ صالح الفوزان ]، باب إحياء الموات — islamhouse.com (35:30)
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