Back to search
The question

How can we judge by conjecture that a Hadith is a lie, when Allah Almighty says: "Indeed, conjecture avails not against the truth at all," along with the Hadith: "Whoever narrates a Hadith from me, believing it to be a lie, is one of the two liars"?

Share this answer

Source: FtawySummarized from the full answer at Ftawy · imported Sep 2, 20261 min readAlso available in العربية
The answer

The : "Whoever narrates a hadith from me that is thought to be a lie, then he is one of the liars," warns against attributing a hadith to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, when one suspects it to be false, and mandates verifying the hadith before narrating it. Al-Nawawi said: It is forbidden to narrate a fabricated hadith for anyone who knows or strongly suspects its fabrication. The infiltration of doubts into the heart is a serious matter, for as Ibn al-Qayyim said about his shaykh Ibn Taymiyyah: Do not make your heart like a sponge that absorbs doubts, but rather like a solid glass through which doubts pass without settling therein.

Summarized from the full answer at Ftawy · imported

Read the full answer on Ftawy
Where this answer came from
Source platform
Ftawy
Original fatwa ID
156012
Imported
Translation status
Source text, unreviewed
Read the full ruling
Read the full answer on Ftawy