These examples should make it clear that shādh and munkar denote erroneous reports.

These examples should make it clear that shādh and munkar denote erroneous reports. Mistakes, whether in isnād or in matn, remain mistakes in every circumstance. Multiple routes cannot transform them into correct reports.

The examples I have given here are hypothetical to aid understanding. The real examples are in my aforementioned book, which need not be repeated. In another of my works, Madkhal Rāʾiʿ ilā Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī wa mā fīhi min Asrār wa Ṣanāʾiʿ, there are also many instances of shādh and munkar.

The later Ḥanafīs, however, have fallen into grave error here. In order to support their school, they attempted to authenticate and improve the status of shādh and munkar reports. I have exposed this reprehensible mistake in my book Tamhīd ʿIlm al-Ḥadīth.

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Disclaimer: This article was translated by AI. Original post: https://t.me/DrAkramNadwi/7028