The Saheehayn Narrators Investigated in Ibn Hibban's Book Al-Majrooheen(the doubted): An Applied Critical Study

Abstract

 This is a study of some of the Hadeeth narrators who were negatively reported by Ibn Hibban, and the method Al-Bukhari and Muslim used in selecting the Hadeeths of those questioned narrators to authenticate their narrations  in the Saheeh. After studying the status of those narrators in Ibn Hibban's book, the researcher concludes the following:

(a)The narrators whose narrations are judged to be full of (mistake and illusion), are more likely to be classified as reliable, truthful, acceptable, and mistaken truthful.

(b) For the narrators whose narrations are accused of confusion according to Ibn Hibban, the two Imams did not authenticate the narrations after this confusion, nor were the denied narrations mentioned in the Saheehayn.

(c) Ibn Hibban hesitated in judging one of the seven narrators, Omran Ibn Muslim Al-Munqari, and said that he sought intuitive inspiration from Allah to guide him to the right verdict. But after studying Al-Munqari's status, it appears that he is acceptable.

 Moreover, those who judge narrators only by the narration of Al-Bukhari and Muslim as being sound are mistaken. It depends on the consideration of the narration after the narrator and its condition, and on the authenticating of a narration by one of the Imams as being just and soundly verified beside the narrator's righteousness; however, this was limited to those whose narrations were included by Ibn Hibban in the fundamentals not in Al-Mutaaba`aat (the follow up) or citations.