What is the course of action when the authentication of a hadith scholar conflicts with the authentication of a jurist?

Question : May Allah bless you. If the authentication or weakening by a well-known hadith scholar who is an expert in the biographies of narrators conflicts with that of another who has knowledge of hadith but is more of a jurist than the first.

Answer : Yes, indeed. There is no doubt that we take the opinion of the first, the one with knowledge of hadith, because he is the specialist in the matter. Some jurists today cite a hadith and say it is of the highest authenticity. But when you look into it, it turns out to be of the highest weakness. This is found in many books of jurists who do not have knowledge of hadith, such as *Ihya' 'Ulum al-Din* by al-Ghazali. It contains a great deal of weak hadiths. Because the man is not a hadith scholar. He does not know anything about hadith, but he is a good philosopher in understanding rulings, secrets, manners, and morals, and the like. So the result is that if the authentication of a jurist conflicts with the authentication of a hadith scholar, we take the authentication of whom? The hadith scholar, without doubt. Yes.