Does Imam al-Bukhari accept weak hadiths?
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The questioner :
One of the teachers of the hadith subject says that Imam al-Bukhari accepts weak hadiths... that it is in the book of *al-Adab al-Mufrad*.
The *Mufarrad* in weak hadiths is something that makes one laugh.
The questioner : The other:
This is Abu Ghuddah, Muhammad 'Awamah. He is famous there in Aleppo. He was, I mean, one of his special students. He used to
read the books of hadith to him there...
The questioner:1
He said that he found weak hadiths, and also, if he found fabricated hadiths, he still acted upon the hadith.
The fabricated one. There is no power or strength except in Allah.
The questioner:2
... Shaykh al-Bukhari, Nu'aym ibn Hammad, is weak...
The Shaykh:
As for others, the hadith that comes through weak chains: if you look at the hadith from the angle of each
chain individually, you judge it as weak. But this weakness realized in each of its chains is
a weakness that is not an accusation against the man's religion or his truthfulness, but rather a weakness in his memorization. The soul leans toward
and feels reassured in strengthening the hadith because the weakness present in the individual chains is strengthened by the totality of these
chains. It is like a woman who testifies, and then another comes and testifies with her testimony, so their two testimonies equal the testimony of one
man, because the defect that Allah the Mighty and Majestic referred to in His saying:
This remembrance is realized by another testimony, and this is strength for the testimony naturally. Likewise, the coming of the hadith through many
chains with the description mentioned above, in the location of the hadith, means that the hadith with this group of chains
is *hasan li ghayrihi* (good due to other chains), and it may rise to be *sahih li ghayrihi* (authentic due to other chains).
The questioner : ....
The Shaykh :
It is known that if we strike ten chains, each chain having a weakness that is not an accusation as we said, then this
that came from ten chains is not like the hadith that came from five chains. It came from five
chains. If it came from the five chains, it is given the status of *hasan*, but as the chains increase, the soul becomes more reassured of its authenticity, so the hadith rises at that time, and since it is from the ten chains, it is authentic.
The questioner:
May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh:
And you likewise
One of the teachers of the hadith subject says that Imam al-Bukhari accepts weak hadiths... that it is in the book of *al-Adab al-Mufrad*.
The *Mufarrad* in weak hadiths is something that makes one laugh.
The questioner : The other:
This is Abu Ghuddah, Muhammad 'Awamah. He is famous there in Aleppo. He was, I mean, one of his special students. He used to
read the books of hadith to him there...
The questioner:1
He said that he found weak hadiths, and also, if he found fabricated hadiths, he still acted upon the hadith.
The fabricated one. There is no power or strength except in Allah.
The questioner:2
... Shaykh al-Bukhari, Nu'aym ibn Hammad, is weak...
The Shaykh:
As for others, the hadith that comes through weak chains: if you look at the hadith from the angle of each
chain individually, you judge it as weak. But this weakness realized in each of its chains is
a weakness that is not an accusation against the man's religion or his truthfulness, but rather a weakness in his memorization. The soul leans toward
and feels reassured in strengthening the hadith because the weakness present in the individual chains is strengthened by the totality of these
chains. It is like a woman who testifies, and then another comes and testifies with her testimony, so their two testimonies equal the testimony of one
man, because the defect that Allah the Mighty and Majestic referred to in His saying:
so that if one of them errs, the other may remind her.
أن تضل إحداهما فتذكر إحداهما الأخرىThis remembrance is realized by another testimony, and this is strength for the testimony naturally. Likewise, the coming of the hadith through many
chains with the description mentioned above, in the location of the hadith, means that the hadith with this group of chains
is *hasan li ghayrihi* (good due to other chains), and it may rise to be *sahih li ghayrihi* (authentic due to other chains).
The questioner : ....
The Shaykh :
It is known that if we strike ten chains, each chain having a weakness that is not an accusation as we said, then this
that came from ten chains is not like the hadith that came from five chains. It came from five
chains. If it came from the five chains, it is given the status of *hasan*, but as the chains increase, the soul becomes more reassured of its authenticity, so the hadith rises at that time, and since it is from the ten chains, it is authentic.
The questioner:
May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh:
And you likewise
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