What is the degree of authenticity of Al-Hakim's hadiths?
Al-Mustadrak by Al-Hakim contains many authentic (sahih) and good (hasan) hadiths, but it also includes weak (da'if), rejected (munkar), or fabricated (mawdu') hadiths. Al-Dhahabi, Al-Suyuti, and Ibn al-Salah have critiqued him regarding this. As for Al-Hakim's book Al-Tarikh, it is a repository of weak hadiths.
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