The Grades of Ḥadīth and the Four Imams: Where the Muḥaddith Carries Weight and Where the Jurist

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The grades of ḥadīth. There is a ḥadīth that pertains to matters of belief: its chain must be the stronger, and its narrators of the highest rank. Thus Imam al-Bukhārī ﵀ compiled the Kitāb al-Īmān, and the ḥadīths in it are of the highest rank as to their chains.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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