the act resulting in some inconsistency in wording. So was the case with the traditions reported by authors of independent compilations like al-Sunan al-kubra of al-Bayhaqi, and Sharh al-Sunnah of Abu Muhammad al-Baghawi and others, in which they said: It is reported by al-Bukhari or Muslim,' the case in which it would be got that none other than al-Bukhari or Muslim has reported the origin of that hadith, with probability of presence of difference in meaning between them,612 in which I actually found some inconsistency in denotation.613 I will not discuss what these extracted traditions contained of alterations in terms or meanings or additions, but they can be sought in their books. Al-Hamidi has distinguished these additions to the terms of al-Sahih, by saying, after citing the hadith, al-Bukhari was sufficed of it with so and so words, while al-Barqani, for instance, increased so and so words in it! and so forth. And non-distinguishing only occurred in few cases, as he may quote the hadith from what al-Barqani or another one extracted, saying then: Al-Bukhari abridged it and reported only part of it, without indicating the portion he was satisfied with, rendering it obscure for the reader, the obscurity that can't be removed but only through referring to the origin of the hadith when he would be mostly relieved of blame.614 And as stated before, they have found fault with many of the traditions reported by al-Bukhari and Muslim, beside many suspicions raised in Sharh Ibn Hajar against al-Bukhari and by al-Nawawi against Muslim, which were used by them for producing several mustakhrajat. So when al-Bukhari and Muslim though being al-Sahihan as called by them containing all these defects and objections, with all that criticism levelled at them, left alone creeping of some Jewish traditions (Isra'iliyyat) into them and wrongly reporting on basis of meaning, beside ascribing them to some of hadith books that can't be called masanid since they being unauthentic and not dependable at all, as whatever they contained was so poor. About them the leaders (imams) of hadith deemed them to be unfit for disputation, nor can be relied upon, as will be later seen. O God, we implore You to provide this straightforward religion with that who safeguards its principles and protects its foundations, so as not to be
612. Till when is this difference in the words and meanings of the hadith? 613. Muqaddimat Ibn al-Salah, pp.9, 10. 614. Tawjih al-nazar, p.144.
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