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#1 [Permalink] Posted on 9th November 2010 12:08

Asslamo Allaikum,

The two earlier Imams Imam Al-Adham Abu Haneefa (RA) and Imam Darul-Hijrah Malik Ibn Anas (RA) accept Mursal Hadeeth as evidence.

Please define and explain Mursal Ahadeeth and the position of Muhaiditheen in this regard as this is the primary bone of contenion between Hanafees & others.

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#2 [Permalink] Posted on 9th November 2010 15:59
Jazakallah for the question. As I said before, whilst looking for an answer, we come across many more things of knowledge that benfits us.

This is from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadith_terminology

Mursal, (مُرْسَل), literally means 'hurried'. If the narrator between the Successor and Muhammad(SAW) is omitted from a given isnād, the hadith is mursal, e.g., when a Successor says, "The Prophet said ..." Since Sunnis (Ahle Sunnah Wal Jama'ah) believe in the uprightness of all Sahaba, they do not view it as a necessary problem if a Successor does not mention what Sahaba he received the hadith from. This means that if a hadith has an acceptable chain all the way to a Successor, and the successor attributes it to an unspecified companion, the isnād is considered acceptable.

However, there are different views in some cases: If the Successor is a young one and it is probable that he omitted an elder Successor who in turn reported form a Sahaba. The opinion held by Imam Malik and all Maliki jurists is that the mursal of a trustworthy person is valid, just like a musnad hadith. This view has been developed to such an extreme that to some of them, the mursal is even better than the musnad, based on the following reasoning: "The one who reports a musnad hadith leaves you with the names of the reporters for further investigation and scrutiny, whereas the one who narrates by way of irsal (the absence of the link between the successor and the Prophet), being a knowledgeable and trustworthy person himself, has already done so and found the hadith to be sound. In fact, he saves you from further research." Others reject the mursal of younger Successor.
Since Shi'a make an individual judgment on each Sahaba, they do not differentiate between a mursal and a munqati isnād.
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