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Do the scribes of Hadith report all the narrations they hear without verification?

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This statement requires elaboration:

- If the questioner means that the people of Hadith do not know the authenticity of the Hadiths, then this is false, because they are people of knowledge and precision.

- However, if he means that the books of some Hadith scholars contain authentic, weak, and fabricated narrations, then this is true. This is because some of them, like Al-Bukhari and Muslim, stipulated authenticity, while the authors of the Sunan and Musnad collections did not stipulate it, and they narrated Hadiths of varying degrees.

- Their inclusion of various Hadiths does not impugn their knowledge or integrity, because they did not stipulate authenticity for everything they narrated. Rather, they narrated weak Hadiths with their chains of narration for scholars to examine.

- Scholars played a great role in distinguishing the authentic from the weak through the science of 'Ilm al-Rijal (knowledge of narrators) and al-Jarh wa al-Ta'dil (discrediting and accrediting narrators).

- Whoever doubts the authenticity of these books aims to demolish the religion and malign the scholars of the Muslim nation.

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