How to make a judgment when there is a conflict in grading hadiths as weak or authentic

May Allah reward you! I am a beginner student, but sometimes I am confused when I read a hadith that some of the early scholars graded as authentic, while the later scholars graded it as weak. What should I do?

The answer to this is: If you have the ability to know the reason for the hadith being graded as weak and you have investigated it, then follow what you see to be the truth, whether it is from the words of the early scholars or the words of the later scholars. However, if you do not have that ability, and you say that you are a beginner student, then follow what the earlier scholars say; because they are closer to the truth than the later scholars.