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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Continuation: Is there a difference between the two expressions: "This is a good hadith" and "This is a good, strange hadith according to al-Tirmidhi"?

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The Shaykh : ... because if he says "authentic," it means that its chain of narration is weak; but if he says "good and authentic," it means it has two chains, one of which is authentic; but he added to it another chain that is good, and it is more authentic than what he called "authentic"; because the authentic one has a chain, and this one has an authentic chain and a good chain, so it is stronger. But this is contradicted, or is contradicted, by the fact that al-Tirmidhi often combines three expressions, or three words, and says: "Good, authentic, strange," and the meaning of "strange" is that it has only one chain of narration. So this is contradicted by the interpretation mentioned earlier.
Some of them said finally: "Good" considering the view of some of the imams regarding one of the narrators, so they did not raise the hadith to the level of authentic; and others raised the hadith to the level of authentic. So it is good according to the view of some imams, and authentic according to the view of other imams. So all of this, and this, and this, does not give one peace of mind; because often he does not find the evidence that makes him feel at ease with it, and sometimes, as you have seen, he finds evidence that contradicts this interpretation. This is the answer we know regarding this question. So my purpose in my previous speech was that the science of hadith requires very great efforts.

The questioner : Knowledge of this science ... .

The Shaykh : And perseverance, that is it.
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