Is al-Sakhawi's statement in *Fath al-Mughith* and Ibn 'Adi's statement in *al-Kamil fi al-Sariq* understood to be specific to rare narrations?
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The questioner : All right, our Shaykh, we have come across statements by Ibn 'Adi in *al-Kamil* and by al-Sakhawi in *Fath al-Mughith*.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : I understood from their statements that the *sariq* (plunderer) is the one who takes a rare hadith that a narrator among the narrators transmits alone, and people travel to him for the sake of this rare hadith or the benefit that is not found with anyone else. Then this *sariq* jumps on this hadith and claims to have heard it, either as a companion to the one who transmitted it alone or as being higher in the chain than him. And as for the liar, he is the one who claims to have heard what he did not hear and to have met someone he did not meet, even if it is not rare, even if it is famous. Is this statement correct?
The Shaykh : It is correct, as in "correct" (authentic), but not in the sense of exclusivity; it is not in the sense of exclusivity.
The questioner : Exclusivity is not a condition.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : Exclusivity is not a condition in plundering that it be from the rare narrations.
The Shaykh : Rare, yes.
The questioner : May Allah reward you.
The Shaykh : Yes, exactly.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : I understood from their statements that the *sariq* (plunderer) is the one who takes a rare hadith that a narrator among the narrators transmits alone, and people travel to him for the sake of this rare hadith or the benefit that is not found with anyone else. Then this *sariq* jumps on this hadith and claims to have heard it, either as a companion to the one who transmitted it alone or as being higher in the chain than him. And as for the liar, he is the one who claims to have heard what he did not hear and to have met someone he did not meet, even if it is not rare, even if it is famous. Is this statement correct?
The Shaykh : It is correct, as in "correct" (authentic), but not in the sense of exclusivity; it is not in the sense of exclusivity.
The questioner : Exclusivity is not a condition.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : Exclusivity is not a condition in plundering that it be from the rare narrations.
The Shaykh : Rare, yes.
The questioner : May Allah reward you.
The Shaykh : Yes, exactly.
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