Importance Of Weak Ahadith
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Hadith science like all other subjects has gone through a natural evolutionary process. It took three to four centuries for this science to take its complete form. Earlier scholars like Imam Malik at instances did not even mention the complete chain of narrators in his book ‘ Muatta ‘, instead he would write, “ It reached me that the Messenger of Allah (sws) said ….” or He may also say: “ It reached me from so and so (a Companion) that ….”, meaning that he would skip the names of one or two narrators in his chain because they are trustworthy narrators to him or he considers the source very reliable irrespective of the rest of the chain. For example , see: https://sunnah.com/malik/48/5 AND https://sunnah.com/urn/511170 . However, because of amalgamation of fabricated Ahadith in high numbers in later times, it was inevitable that such categorization should be made more and more clear.