What is the religious ruling regarding someone who believes that the Prophetic Hadiths, even those authentically reported in Bukhari and Muslim, may be inaccurate in their transmission, citing as evidence that the pillars of Islam are six with the addition of Jihad, and that the narrators of the Hadith were not contemporaries of the Prophet, may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him, and that the Qur’an emphasized Jihad more than anything else, considering most Hadiths to be distorted and that the existence of deviant sects is proof of this?

Prophetic hadiths include the authentic (sahih), the good (hasan), the weak (da'if), and the fabricated (mawdu'). Muslims accept what is contained in the Sahihs of al-Bukhari and Muslim. Jihad is one of the well-known obligations and the peak of Islam. The statement that most hadiths are distorted is baseless, as the well-known books contain the most authentic ones. The existence of deviant sects does not indicate distortion of hadiths, but rather their rejection of the Sunnah, or their interpretation of it, and their failure to take its apparent meaning. It must be known that hadith has rules and foundations, and no one is permitted to judge the authenticity or weakness of a hadith except by studying its chain of narration (isnad) and text (matn), and by researching the rules and regulations established by Islamic scholars. The speaker must be cautious about rejecting the Sunnah and objecting to it, for Allah Almighty has preserved this religion, His Book, and the Sunnah of His Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.