Is it understood from your statement regarding the one who narrated from him more than two, that he narrated from him three?
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The questioner : Also, another quick issue, and that is: Is it understood from your statement regarding the one who narrated from him more than two, that he narrated from him three; does the ignorance regarding him disappear from those about whom the scholars of al-jarh wa al-ta'dil (the critique and vindication of narrators) were silent; do you say this?
The Shaykh : I say: If a group narrated from him, and the researcher is reassured that this group are trustworthy, and he was graded as trustworthy by one whose grading is lenient; in this case, the soul is reassured to cite his hadith as evidence, even at the level of a good hadith. Indeed, if the narrators from him are numerous and there is no one who graded him as trustworthy, not even Ibn Hibban; then the soul is also reassured to say about this narrator that he is truthful as well.
The questioner : And if he was not graded as trustworthy?
The Shaykh : So...
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : This is sufficient. I said in the second answer: "Indeed"; and you know that "indeed" (bal) is for correction, so I corrected the first statement in which I mentioned lenient grading.
The questioner : That is clear.
The Shaykh : So what I corrected, and what I came to instead of what was corrected, is: if there is a narrator and a group of four or five trustworthy people narrated from him; in this case, the soul does not reject the matter! A believer is not stung twice from the same hole. So in this case, the soul is reassured to lean toward strengthening the hadith of this narrator; that is: even if no one graded him as trustworthy.
The questioner : He narrated from the three.
The Shaykh : ... three.
The questioner : More than three.
The Shaykh : More than three.
The Shaykh : I say: If a group narrated from him, and the researcher is reassured that this group are trustworthy, and he was graded as trustworthy by one whose grading is lenient; in this case, the soul is reassured to cite his hadith as evidence, even at the level of a good hadith. Indeed, if the narrators from him are numerous and there is no one who graded him as trustworthy, not even Ibn Hibban; then the soul is also reassured to say about this narrator that he is truthful as well.
The questioner : And if he was not graded as trustworthy?
The Shaykh : So...
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : This is sufficient. I said in the second answer: "Indeed"; and you know that "indeed" (bal) is for correction, so I corrected the first statement in which I mentioned lenient grading.
The questioner : That is clear.
The Shaykh : So what I corrected, and what I came to instead of what was corrected, is: if there is a narrator and a group of four or five trustworthy people narrated from him; in this case, the soul does not reject the matter! A believer is not stung twice from the same hole. So in this case, the soul is reassured to lean toward strengthening the hadith of this narrator; that is: even if no one graded him as trustworthy.
The questioner : He narrated from the three.
The Shaykh : ... three.
The questioner : More than three.
The Shaykh : More than three.
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