Does al-Quduri Rank Above the Sihah?

Question

Question: You sent a reply to my fatwa, for which I thank you. But my venerable mufti, in his reply, so to speak, ‘reversed the flow of the river’ and went against his own predecessors: [your words were] — the books of hadith such as al-Tirmidhi, al-Muwatta’ and the rest are reliable; [but] there are hadiths among them that have been abrogated (mansukh)

Answer

Does “Tirmidhi Sharif” not contain weak (da‘if), abrogated (mansukh), and mutually conflicting (muta‘aridh) hadiths? Indeed, Imam al-Tirmidhi himself frequently writes: “this is a weak hadith” (هذا حديث ضعيف). Only a person who has merely heard the name of “Tirmidhi Sharif” but has not read it could deny this — which is precisely why he cites the words of the respected Hazrat…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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