A Great Collection of Fabricated Traditions

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A Great Collection of Fabricated Traditions (Arabic: Al-Mawdu'at al-Kubrah) is a book written by Abul-Faraj Ibn Al-Jawzi. In it, he judged several hadith in the Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal to be either weakly transmitted or fabricated, though he himself belonged to Ibn Hanbal's legal school.

1 Conflicting sources
- 1.1 One claim
- 1.2 Other claims
2 External links

[edit] Conflicting sources

[edit] One claim

Later, Ibn Hajar made a detailed examination of the same hadith. He stated that A Great Collection of Fabricated Traditions is as unreliable in its declaring the grade of "forged" as Mustadrak al-Hakim is unreliable in its declaring the grade of "sound." (Sahih)

He listed in al-Qawl al-Musaddad fil-Dhabb `an Musnad al-Imam Ahmad (published by Shaykh Ahmad Shakir in his edition of the Musnad) 22 hadiths from Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal which Ibn al-Jawzi included in A Great Collection of Fabricated Traditions and he argues that of the 22 claimed forgeries, none can be conclusively said to have been forged.

[edit] Other claims

Ibn Hajar claimed to have proven every hadith except thirteen as authentic.

Suyuti later scrutinized them once more and concluded that none were probably fabricated, although a few may have weak chains of transmission and hence could be labeled da'if.^{[citation needed]}

Suyuti also reviewed Ibn al-Jawzi's A Great Collection of Fabricated Traditions and listed the authentic ones. Thinking that the rest might not be fabricated either, he wrote The Artificial Pearls (Al-Laa'li al-Masnu'a).

These hadith are generally thought to be fabricated by interpolation (i.e. that narrator jumbling up information, mixing texts and authoritative chains) rather than being mere creations of a dubious narrator's imagination.^{[citation needed]}

Another issue is the fact that Imam Ahmad added hadith to his Musnad which he later struck out. This methodology was not understood by some and those deleted hadith are often re-included in the work when transribed.