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Abu Ilyas
11-27-2008, 09:51 PM
The Effects of using weak Hadiths

The term “weak hadeeth” refers to any narration which does not fulfill the conditions of authenticity. The scholars of Hadeeth agree that a “weak hadeeth” must not be attributed to the Prophet by saying: “The Prophet said …”.


Applying weak hadeeth in excellent deeds.

Very often when you point to the weakness of a Hadeeth you hear being cited, someone will immediately say: “But this Hadeeth is talking about (the reward of) excellent deeds, and it is alright to refer to unauthentic Hadeeth when talking about excellent deeds.”

It has become a norm amongst the majority of a good number of scholars and students of Islamic learning that it is alright to use weak Hadeeth when it refers to the reward of excellent deeds. They consider it a fully accepted rule that should not be argued. They also would quote the words of great scholars to support their point.

Before going into detail to refute the arguments of these people, let me point out that they have, in general, misunderstood the sayings of the great scholars of Islam they quote, relative to weak Hadeeth and how it should be used.

This serious misunderstanding has led to the great epidemic of freely using weak narrations; which certainly may involve lying against the Messenger of Allaah .

Refutation of the claim:

First, we should mention that the rule cited earlier (that weak Hadeeth can be used in excellent deeds) is not accepted by all the scholars of Hadeeth. For instance, Abu Bakr Ibn ‘Arabi said: “The weak Hadeeth should be absolutely avoided and not dealt with.”

Second, we should know that the scholars of Hadeeth who permitted the use of weak Hadeeth have set very strict rules applying to their use. Al-Haafith Ibn Hajar Al-‘Asqalaani

said: “There are three conditions that must be fulfilled in order to use the weak Hadeeth:

a. It is well accepted that the weakness should only be slight. This will help to exclude Hadeeth reported by liars or accused reporters (of lying) who are known to commit big mistakes.

b. The weak Hadeeth should be used under already well-established principles and should not bring in ideas of its own.

c. When a weak Hadeeth is used (after it fulfills the above two conditions), it should not be believed to be said by the Messenger of Allaah ; to do so we would be crediting him with that which he did not say.

For the above conditions to be satisfied, people planning to use the weak Hadeeth should have the ability to:

1. Distinguish between the weak and the authentic Hadeeth in order to fulfill condition (c) above, otherwise they may fall into lying about the Messenger .

2. Distinguish between the slightly weak Hadeeth and those which are very weak or fabricated, in order to fulfill condition (a) above.

What should be very clear to Muslims is that the ability to make the above two distinctions is not possessed except by a very small category of the scholars of Hadeeth (who can be counted on the fingers).

In particular with reference to item (2) above, only a few of the scholars of Hadeeth in all of the history of Islam have dealt with it.

Someone might justifiably ask: “Why are we so strict in this matter (of using weak Hadeeth), when some scholars of Hadeeth have permitted it?”

The answer to this question was given by a great scholar of Hadeeth, Muhammad Naassir Ad-Deen Al-Albaani who said:

“The earlier scholars used to mention the Hadeeth with their full Isnaad (chain of Narrators), so that any other scholar reading their treatise could know from the chain of Narrators the degree of authenticity of the Hadeeth.”

We pray that this small introduction to the subject of weak Hadeeth and using it as proof has helped in clarifying how dangerous this is.


By: Abu ‘Abdullaah Muhammad Al-Jibaaly
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Najm
11-27-2008, 10:20 PM
AsSalamOAlaikum WaRehmatuAllah WaBarkatuhu

Good Post akhi, we should always try our best to avoid weak Hadith.

FiAmaaniAllah
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Faith.
11-27-2008, 10:38 PM
:sl:
Jazakallah for sharing Akhee

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Abu Ilyas
11-27-2008, 10:55 PM
Ameen, Wa'iyyakum.
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alcurad
11-27-2008, 11:17 PM
thank you for sharing
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Olive
11-28-2008, 07:59 AM
Masha'Allah, good post bro. :)
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*Yasmin*
12-02-2008, 10:51 AM
:sl:
thank you for sharing brother;
my mother asked me about the weak hadith yesterday,
jazak allah kher

this link could help muslims to cofirm the authenticity of the hadith
"its in arabic"
http://www.dorar.net/enc/hadith
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yass
12-15-2008, 10:17 PM
Jazakallah, is it true that the saying "Seek Knowledge even if you have to go to China" is a weak hadith? or not a hadith at all?
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*Yasmin*
12-21-2008, 05:06 PM
brother yass
al-slam 3leykom
al-shekh alalbane said that it's mod'o3 (not a hadith at all)
you can find it in (d'3ef al-jami3)
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Caller الداعي
12-29-2008, 04:10 PM
salam alaykm....thx bro 4 ur post but it would be helpful if wen quoting the sayings of scholars u gave refrences...this would be very helpful thx....as a studnt of hadith i spend alot of time reading and need to understand who said wat wher! the deen is an amaanah...remebr us in ur duas.
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KashifB
01-06-2009, 01:17 PM
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I think this is a very good message and would like to include it on my website www.LinkToIslam.net but only if I have the author's permission.
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