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Depending on online databases for the takhrij of Hadiths is a recipe for disaster, especially when it is accompanied by general incompetence in the field of hadith.
Online databases suffer from various limitations, and they are loaded with all kinds of errors.
Online databases suffer from various limitations, and they are loaded with all kinds of errors.
An online program will never be able to properly navigate through the phenomenon of الرواية بالمعنى.
Variants of reports that are relayed “by meaning” are structured/worded differently. Reports with vastly different wordings may nevertheless be variants of the same report!
Variants of reports that are relayed “by meaning” are structured/worded differently. Reports with vastly different wordings may nevertheless be variants of the same report!
Such instances are nearly unidentifiable by software, and I can quickly identify a book editor who depended on such programs without any other formS of research as he edited a book.
Take for example this takhrij of this report in Musnad Ibn al-Mubarak.
The editor noted that the report was also found in the Musnad of Ahmed. I knew that the hadith was in (at least) one of the Sahihayn, yet the editor failed to point that out. The report was in the Sahihayn.
The editor noted that the report was also found in the Musnad of Ahmed. I knew that the hadith was in (at least) one of the Sahihayn, yet the editor failed to point that out. The report was in the Sahihayn.
I then realized what the editor had done.
He simply ran the first clause of the hadith, "دخل عبد الجنة,” on al-Shamilah or an analagous software, and he relied on the results that showed up over there.
He simply ran the first clause of the hadith, "دخل عبد الجنة,” on al-Shamilah or an analagous software, and he relied on the results that showed up over there.
However, with a slight tweaking of the hadith’s wording, he would have come across a plethora of entries for the same hadith in the Sahihayn.
Such crucial details pertaining to the & its isnad were entirely left out simply because someone thought a search engine was enough.
Such crucial details pertaining to the & its isnad were entirely left out simply because someone thought a search engine was enough.
During my preliminary assessment of this edition I had bought, I realized that such occurrences were common: he would often miss out on the fact that the hadith was relayed in the Sahihayn with the same isnad, yet he’d opt to mention less-relevant sources.
The tahqiq was junk.
The tahqiq was junk.
Online databases are also loaded with all kinds of spelling errors & misidentifications of transmitters.
The entries allotted to certain transmitters are often non-comprehensive &/or misrepresentative of what the hadith critics had actually said.
The entries allotted to certain transmitters are often non-comprehensive &/or misrepresentative of what the hadith critics had actually said.
When someone is a total ignoramus in hadith yet attempts to compensate for his ignorance by utilizing hadith software, his ignorance is made quite apparent to anyone in the field.
If you meddle with hadith, your ignorance will eventually be exposed, & it’s just a matter of time.
If you meddle with hadith, your ignorance will eventually be exposed, & it’s just a matter of time.
