The Negative Consequences of Distinguishing Between Mutawatir Hadith and Ahad Hadith

The Shaykh : ... especially since these later generations who agreed upon this distinction between ahad hadith and mutawatir hadith based a legal ruling on it. They said that an ahad hadith, even if it is authentic, if it contains a belief, then one does not take from this hadith, even if it is authentic, unless it reaches the level of mutawatir. This classification, upon which this ruling was based—namely, the distinction between belief, where one does not take from ahad hadith, and rulings, where one does take from ahad hadith—anyone who has studied the Salaf, who has studied what the Companions were upon and what their followers after them were upon, is certain that such a classification is foreign to Islam, and it is a philosophy from which Islam disavows itself...