Are the Hadiths of Al-Bukhari and Muslim definitive in their authenticity and meaning, or presumptive in their authenticity and meaning?
The Muslim Ummah has accepted the Hadiths in Bukhari and Muslim. Some of these Hadiths are definitively established (mutawatir), while others are presumptively established (ahad). This is the view of the majority. Others, like Ibn al-, held that all of them are definitively established, with the exception of those that some critics have questioned. Some verifiers have agreed with Ibn al-Salah.
As for their implication (dalalah), their Hadiths are divided into those with definitive implication and those with presumptive implication. There is no necessary correlation between definitive establishment and definitive implication. It is not a condition for argumentation that a text be definitively established and definitively implying, because we are obligated by the preponderance of probability. Anyone who stipulates this would reject most of the and contradict the consensus of the Ummah.
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