Causes Of Hadith Fabrication
Yes it does. I will try to apply from what I have learnt from this to one such fabricated narrative which is used to support a baseless claim, by a prominent sect of the Muslims (while its content might not be dismissed altogether). Will do that in a separate thread.
Pick any hadith which reached to us from Prophet->person A and included in Bukhari and he found it authentic after applying all the hadith science he knew. So, he labeled the hadith Sahih. According to him, for all practical purposes, Prophet did indeed say this thing. Now, another scholar considers that hadith to be contradicting the Qur’an. According to him, one of the following reasons could be the logical possibility. 1. Prophet violated the Qur’anic ruling, either intentionally or unintentionally. 2. The person A attributed false thing to Prophet, either intentionally or unintentionally. 3. Bukhari attributed false thing to A , either intentionally or unintentionally. 1. will not be possible for any muslim to accept, though a non-Muslim like me will be ok with it. For 2, to happen, it proves A is unreliable narrator. If he did it unintentionally, and Bukhari still considered him a reliable narrator, it puts the hadith science into question. How can a person of poor memory be considered reliable narrator ? If he did it intentionally, then it is even bigger problem. It means A will go to hell. It will again put Bukhari’s selection criterion into doubt. For 3 to happen, we can consider Bukhari’s method to be unreliable. If Bukhari did it intentionally, we can reject all the hadiths in it ..
See this pdf on Hadith interpretation https://ask.ghamidi.org/?attachment_id=1043&document_type=document&download_document_file=1&document_file=3