What is the ruling on a narrator’s hadith who is described as “trustworthy but prone to error” when we do not find that his specific hadith has been explicitly identified as one of his errors?
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The questioner : All right, Shaykh, if a narrator is described as “trustworthy but prone to error,” for example, and we search in *Al-Kamil* or *Mizan al-I’tidal* and do not find this hadith among his errors or mistakes, where does this place it?
The Shaykh : Where what?
The questioner : Where does it place it? Does his hadith become good (hasan) absolutely after that?
The Shaykh : Where does the hadith rise in status?
The questioner : Where does the research go after that?
Another questioner: Where does the researcher go?
The questioner : Does his hadith become good (hasan) after that?
The Shaykh : I mean, I went back to *Al-Taqrib* and saw a narrator described as: “Trustworthy but prone to error.” Let us assume the hadith is in *Musnad Ahmad*. I went back to *Al-Kamil* and did not find the hadith there.
The questioner : Among his errors.
The Shaykh : Ah, he did not mention it in his biography of the narrator. So your question is: what does one do after that?
The questioner : What does one do after that?
The Shaykh : That is not sufficient. One must continue the research in *Al-Kamil*, *Al-Du'afa'* by al-'Uqayli, *Du'afa' Ibn Hibban*, *Al-Mizan*, *Al-Lisan*, and so on. In fact, one should exhaust one’s effort until one can say: “By Allah, I have not found any error in it, and he is authenticated with a moderate level of authentication.” Then I would grade his hadith as good (hasan), until it becomes clear to you what defects it has.
Yes
The Shaykh : Where what?
The questioner : Where does it place it? Does his hadith become good (hasan) absolutely after that?
The Shaykh : Where does the hadith rise in status?
The questioner : Where does the research go after that?
Another questioner: Where does the researcher go?
The questioner : Does his hadith become good (hasan) after that?
The Shaykh : I mean, I went back to *Al-Taqrib* and saw a narrator described as: “Trustworthy but prone to error.” Let us assume the hadith is in *Musnad Ahmad*. I went back to *Al-Kamil* and did not find the hadith there.
The questioner : Among his errors.
The Shaykh : Ah, he did not mention it in his biography of the narrator. So your question is: what does one do after that?
The questioner : What does one do after that?
The Shaykh : That is not sufficient. One must continue the research in *Al-Kamil*, *Al-Du'afa'* by al-'Uqayli, *Du'afa' Ibn Hibban*, *Al-Mizan*, *Al-Lisan*, and so on. In fact, one should exhaust one’s effort until one can say: “By Allah, I have not found any error in it, and he is authenticated with a moderate level of authentication.” Then I would grade his hadith as good (hasan), until it becomes clear to you what defects it has.
Yes