حجية خبر الآحاد

Abstract EN

Commonly accepted story does not meet all the conditions of continuous hadith; it rather signifies a type of story confirmed and narrated by one, two, three or more individuals the number or qualities of whom does not get to the level of continuity in one dimension or more; this specific type of story is considered the rule of law and a basic principle by the scholars.

Religiously speaking, fulfilling the requirements of commonly accepted stories is obligatory; however, the final issue is ordered by watching principles the realization of which determine the extent of authenticity of the intended story and the fact that is it Ok to follow it or not.Different sects and religions disagree in regard with accepting or rejecting commonly accepted stories; the Maliki have conditioned the acceptance of such stories on lack of contradiction with the actions and practices of those beloved by God; for the Hanafis, the main condition is when the story does not induce sedition and the narrator does not disagree or negate any part and that the hadith is in agreement with the analogy, in the sense that the narrator can easily compare the hadith with whatever he has learned in jurisprudence and ijtihad.However, the fundamentalists and mediators required five conditions prior to enacting the rules of a commonly accepted story: being in line with Islam, duty, reason, justice and recording (strong memory).The correct hadith has been quoted from one righteous to another righteous man, following the same process from the very beginning to the end, without contradiction or negation.

Thus, a hadith is correct if it meets the following five requirements: consistency, justice of narrators, precise recording, appropriateness, and involving no distortion.Consistency means being directly narrated from one narrator to the next, without any mediator link or possible additions and deletions; thus, discontinues, inconsistent, suspended, and heard through mediator hadiths does not qualify as correct ones.

The hadiths of commonly accepted stories are of three types; first, famous hadith which has been continually narrated by two or three individuals; second, true hadith narrated by two individuals heard from two or more individuals directly; and the third group is unknown hadith the narrator of which is a single individual in all levels and dimensions.