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Is there a scale or classification for scholars and their qualification of hadith narrators?

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Often when a question about the authenticity or a qualification of a hadith is asked I find scholars quoting that scholar A considered the narrator X as fine, while scholar B considered him as da'if while scholar C say his hadith is munkar (rejected). Here a couple of relevant posts of mine: https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/35749/is-al-hakims-hadith-collection-al-mustadrak-reliable (here al-Hakim has been described as lenient) And here ahadith where some narrators have been a matter of discussion between scholars of jarh and t'adeel: https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/33479/prohibition-from-drinking-water-from-a-broken-or-a-cracked-vessel/33514?s=1|34.4236#33514 https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/37359/is-this-hadith-about-not-killing-a-kafir-under-protection-authentic/37391?s=2|30.1966#37391 https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/33335/is-it-part-of-the-sunnah-to-fast-for-6-days-in-the-month-next-to-ramadan/33365?s=3|27.4770#33365 https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/382/is-this-hadith-is-authentic-all-the-sins-of-my-followers-will-be-forgiven-exce/29191?s=7|22.7310#29191 https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/46280/is-there-a-hadith-he-who-buys-the-stolen-property-with-the-knowledge-that-it-w/46283?s=5|25.7089#46283 I want to ask is there a scale where we can "put" or add some scholars to those who are rather picky when qualifying narrators (one could say hard liners), while others are rather more lenient? Or maybe one could say can we put scholars of jarh wa t'adeel in different categories according their rigor when judging or qualifying a narrator. For example an answer could look like (this is not an answer draft just an example maybe the answer would put these names in different categories): Lenient: al-Hakim, X, Y ... Less lenient and not too picky: a-Dhahabi , Z ... Hard-liner: ibn Ma'yn, ....
Asked by Medi1Saif (46557 rep)
Mar 12, 2018, 02:46 PM
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