Are there any weak hadiths in al-Bukhari and Muslim? And is their weakness in the chain of narration or in the text?

The student : There are some hadiths discussed in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, some of which you have stated to be weak; is this weakness in the chain of narration, or is the hadith not reported at all?

The Shaykh : This varies depending on the hadith. The principle is that weakness comes from the chain of narration. Sometimes the text is free from the criticism that some people today call internal criticism; but sometimes it is the exact opposite: the chain is authentic, but the text is anomalous. For example, what comes to mind now is the well-known authentic hadith in the narration of al-Bukhari and Muslim, in which the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ... up to the end of the seven; then he says: . This passage appeared in Sahih Muslim reversed: . It is clear that the error is in the text, even though the chain is an authentic chain. Similarly, for example, in a narration in Sahih al-Bukhari: . This is the narration of al-Bukhari and also of Muslim; but this part of the hadith was reversed by some narrators, and in Sahih al-Bukhari it was stated as: . So this is a denounced text, except that the difference is that this denounced text which occurred in Sahih al-Bukhari also occurred in the preserved text agreed upon by theThe Shaykh : Shaykh . Also, what can be criticized in terms of its text, and which then falls under the example of an anomalous hadith because its chain is authentic and free from defect, is the hadith of Ibn Abbas in the two Sahihs, in which he said: . Many scholars have mentioned—rest, may Allah bless you, why are you standing like that?—that it is authentic from Maimunah herself through more than one authentic path: . Therefore, the first narration is not authentic in its text because it contradicts the narration of the one asked about the issue and the story, or the narrator of the story to which it relates, who is Maimunah. She explicitly stated that the Messenger (peace be upon him) married her while she was in a state of purity and he was in a state of purity. There are cases like this, but the truth is that such narrations whose error is established do not detract from the status of the two Sahihs. They remain in the rank known to the people of knowledge, which is that they are the most authentic book on the face of the earth after the Book of Allah (Mighty and Majestic). But the matter is as Imam al-Shafi'i (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "Allah refused to complete anything other than His Book."