The conditions that should be present in one who engages in the science of hadith.

The Shaykh : Ahmad narrated from Jabir; this narration serves as a corroborating report (shahid) for the hadith of Anas ibn Malik, and it has a sound chain. In the Musnad of Imam Ahmad, there is the narration of Ibn ... which, if it stood alone, would be weak, but a corroborating report with a sound chain was found for it from Anas ibn Malik. So I noted here a jurisprudential benefit regarding the text of the summary of ... Makkah. I said, and likewise Madinah, as came in some hadiths to which I referred, and which are extracted in Silsilat al-Ahadith al-Sahihah, either in volume five ... or six, which is ... So I applied the analogy, meaning that the reality is that I see what I stated explicitly: whoever finds in himself energy and aptitude for scientific research into the Prophetic hadith, whether verifying or weakening it, must first have knowledge of the Arabic language, and must have an aptitude for understanding the jurisprudence of hadith and its implications, because this helps him greatly in ... in determining whether a hadith, for example, is preserved or anomalous, or whether it is denounced. It is necessary for him to have a group of trustworthy scholars. And I saw that Shaykh Abdullah (may Allah have mercy on him) did not have with him except one memorizer ... and I certainly benefit from this, but the outcome of producing a work is that the first thing a person does is criticize one person and criticize another, who is attested to by his enemies before his friends as having a standing in this field. So directing criticism toward these beginners in hadith ... this does not achieve any public benefit at all, but rather it harms himself before he realizes his death in this science, as we said this morning, and there is no need to repeat the speech on that.

The questioner : The hadith of 'Adi ibn Hatim ...