{"id":6505,"date":"2013-10-29T20:04:33","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T00:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/?p=69"},"modified":"2013-10-29T20:04:33","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T00:04:33","slug":"definition-saheeh-authentic-hadith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/?p=6505","title":{"rendered":"DEFINITION OF SAHEEH (AUTHENTIC) HADITH"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the name of Allah, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful.
\nDEFINITION OF SAHEEH<\/em> (AUTHENTIC) HADITH
\nSaheeh<\/i> literally means healthy.
\nA saheeh hadith<\/i> is one which has a connected chain of upright narrators, who have excellent retentions, and which is free of any irregularities or defects.
\nTherefore, for a hadith to be classified as saheeh<\/i>, five conditions have to be met:<\/p>\n

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  1. The narrators should be upright. (\u0627\u0644\u0639\u062f\u0644)<\/li>\n
  2. The narrators should have excellent retentions. (\u062a\u0627\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0636\u0628\u0637)<\/li>\n
  3. The chain should be connected. (\u0645\u062a\u0635\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0646\u062f)<\/li>\n
  4. There should be no irregularities. (\u0639\u062f\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u0630\u0648\u0630)<\/li>\n
  5. There should be no defects. (\u0639\u062f\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0644\u0629)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The\u00a0Muhadditheen<\/i>\u00a0explain the above by saying:<\/p>\n

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    • The narrators should be upright. (\u0627\u0644\u0639\u062f\u0644)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      An upright person is one who is steadfast on\u00a0taqwa<\/i>\u00a0and decency.
      \nBy\u00a0taqwa<\/i>\u00a0we mean he stays away from sinful acts like\u00a0shirk, fisq<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0bidah<\/i>.
      \nBy decency we mean that he stays away from those things which are considered bad-manners by people of sound intellect like, urinating on the side of the roads or eating there.<\/p>\n

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      • The narrators should have excellent retentions. (\u062a\u0627\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0636\u0628\u0637)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        The retention of the narrator could either be a result of his excellent memory or by his recording of the hadith in his book and protecting it from changes and then narrating it from the book.<\/p>\n

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        • \u00a0The chain should be connected. (\u0645\u062a\u0635\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0646\u062f)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          This means that each narrator of the chain took the hadith from the narrator above him directly.<\/p>\n

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          • There should be no irregularities. (\u0639\u062f\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u0630\u0648\u0630)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

            Irregularity is when a narrator contradicts a narrator who is stronger than him in memory, or he contradicts many other accurate narrators.<\/p>\n

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            • There should be no defects. (\u0639\u062f\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0644\u0629)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

              Defect (illah)<\/i>\u00a0is a hidden defect that causes the\u00a0hadith<\/i>\u00a0to become weak. A\u00a0hadith<\/i>\u00a0may seem sound, but after extensive investigation a\u00a0muhaddith<\/i>\u00a0may find a defect that was hidden which would cause the hadith to become weak.
              \n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

              In the name of Allah, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful. DEFINITION OF SAHEEH (AUTHENTIC) HADITH Saheeh literally means healthy. A saheeh hadith is one which has…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usulul-hadith","wpcat-27-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}