Sunni Books Of Hadiths And Shia Books Of Hadiths
That’s why we don’t comment on any Hadith in Isolation, we try to collect all the Ahadith on the similar topic to determine the context and then see the strength of their chain of narrators, understand the words of Hadith within framework of whole religion (Quran and Sunnah) and also see whether they are logically sound or not. After doing all this effort, then we can say, still not with 100% certainty that these are exact words of the Prophet(sws) but the closest estimation of what Prophet (sws) could’ve said. Currently Hadith Project is underway under supervision of Javed Ahmed Ghamidi Sahab where they are applying the same principles to the whole collection of Ahadith (approx. 70,000 narrations). Of course after applying all these principles, if someone rejects any Hadith, he must give academic reasons as to why he is rejecting any particular Hadith. Bukhari did his best to take every possible measure to make sure all the limitations in narrating a Hadith are brought to minimum, but still the nature of inherent limitations of this mode of transmission is as such that we can never reach to 100% certainty in terms of words of the Prophet.