A weak hadith is one that lacks one or more of the hadith acceptance conditions. As it is known, the acceptance conditions of the hadith are generally three. The first is that the chain of conveyors is muttasil, the second is that all narrators are reliable and there isn’t any malady. Weakness in hadith generally arises from two reasons. 1st: The inqitʻa in the chain. 2nd: A condi…
We all know that the ḥadiths used various means of inference in terms of accepting and rejecting the ḥadiths and the jarḥ and taʿdīl of the narrators. They have certain methods, just like in other branches of sciences, that they put forward for the criticism of ḥadiths in terms of script and text. Among the sciences that emerged in this context, there are ḥadith methodology, j…
In order to understand the hadith and derive judgements from them, the narratives were examined in many ways in terms of isnad and text. Fiqh al-hadith, a sub-discipline developed by the Ahl al-hadith against the methodological remarks of the Ahl al-ra’y scholars, is based on understanding the narratives and making judgments, especially on the basis of lexical elements. When the issue…
The well-known Syrian thinker and translator, George Tarabishi, presented a new view of heritage in his book “From the Islam of the Qur’an to Modern Islam,” in which he questioned many Islamic postulates, such as the legislative role of the Prophet Mohammed, and the status of his Sunnah. Mr. Tarabishi took a skeptical approach out of context towards the Prophetic Sunnah, and called t…