Chapter on the Critique and Vindication of Narrators and Who Has the Right to Speak on It

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, but who are the men who know the critique and vindication of narrators, where is it, and what is its scope? Are we to explain things about people, backbite about people, and say this is critique and vindication? This is not what qualifies as vindication 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 is, and who its narrators are, so that we know that it is valid and established from the Messenger (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, inciting discord, and dividing people up, 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.