Is the Hadith, "I have left among you two matters, by adhering to which you will never go astray: the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Prophet," verbally mutawatir, or is there another wording of it that is verbally mutawatir, or any other Hadith clarifying the authoritativeness of the Prophetic Sunnah that is verbally mutawatir? And is everything reported in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim authentic and firmly established from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and how can what is probabilistic in its establishment be acted upon as part of the religion?
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The Prophetic Sunnah must be adhered to, as Quranic verses and Prophetic hadiths prove this, and the Ummah has unanimously agreed on the necessity of acting upon it. The hadiths in Bukhari and Muslim are authentic by the consensus of the Ummah, and whatever is authenticated outside of the Two Sahihs is to be acted upon. The غالب ظن (prevailing probability) resulting from sound scientific inference is also to be acted upon.
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