Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

meaning or any of the conditions of hadîth-transmitting.
29— Hadîth-i muftarî: Statements of Musaylamat-ul-kazzâb [1] .
Or they are the concocted words of munâfiqs, zindiqs and
irreligious people disguised as Muslims who succeeded him.
Savants of Ahl as-sunnat found those hadîths that are merdûd or
muftarî and discarded them. Books written by religious superiors
do not contain such statements.
30— Hadîth-i mawdû’: Explained in the previous pages.
31— Ether: Means a mawqûf or maqtû’ hadîth, or a merfû’
hadîth teaching a prayer. Sened means a savant who transmits
hadîths ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’.
GREAT HADÎTH SAVANTS: Hadîth savants are highly
valuable people. He who knows by heart a hundred thousand
hadîths together with their transmitters is called a Hâfiz. He who
has memorized the entire Qur’ân is not called a hâfiz, he is called
a Qâri’. Because there is nobody today who knows hadîths by
heart we erroneously say hâfiz instead of qâri’. He who knows
two hundred thousand hadîths by heart is called a Shaikh-ulhadîth.
He who has memorized three hundred thousand is called
a Hujjat-ul-Islâm. He who knows by heart more than three
hundred thousand hadîths together with their transmitters and
proofs is called an Imâm of hadîth or Mujtahid of hadîth. Of the
hadîth books that have been unanimously confirmed to be
correct by all Islamic savants, six have become famous all over
the world. These six books are called Kutub-i sitta. [It has been
stated (unanimously by Islamic scholars, i.e.) by ijmâ’ that the
hadîth-i-sherîfs in these books are sahîh.] The six savants who
wrote the Kutub-i sitta are:
1— Imâm-i Bukhâri ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’. His name is
[1] A liar in Yemâma. He claimed to be a prophet. Formerly he had
joined the Believers. It was during the second year of the caliphate of
Abû Bakr as-Siddîq ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’, when he made an all-out war
against an army of Believers under the command of Khâlid bin Walîd
‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’ (d. 21 h., Homs). Twenty thousand of the
renegades were slain and two thousand of the Believers attained
martyrdom. Eventually the accursed liar and his army suffered a
crushing defeat and the liar himself met his death in the hands of
Wahshî ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’, who was wielding the very sword that
had been used for the martyrdom of Hadrat Hamza ‘radiy-Allâhu
’anh’.
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