Will a person be held responsible if he shares hadiths whose sources are not definite?
- Will we be held responsible if we share the statements whose sources are not definite and that are shared as hadiths in social media?
Dear Brother / Sister,
Some statements and narrations that are not sound and that are even fabricated are reported as hadiths in some writings and talks.
Therefore, it is necessary for the person who reports those narrations to others to know the science of hadith and to be a person of taqwa or to show the place of the hadith in a sound resource.
If the conditions above are not observed, a person who reports a fabricated statement as a hadith will be held responsible.
It is necessary to take the following hadiths into consideration about the narrations whose source are not certain:
“If a person reports something that is known to be a lie as my statement, he is a liar.” (Muslim, Muqaddima, 1; Tirmidhi, Ilm, 9/2662)
“If a person attributes what I did not say to me, he should prepare for his place in Hell.” (Bukhari, Ilm, 38)
Questions on Islam
- Is it regarded as an excuse when a person says, "I did not know" for a mistake he does? Can a person be held responsible for something he does not know?
- Is it appropriate to learn ilm (knowledge) in order to boast and debate? Will you explain the hadith "…not to praise yourself in the presence of scholars, to argue with ignorance people…"?
- How should we understand the following hadith: "Tell people the hadiths that they can understand. Do you want Allah and the Prophet to be denied"?
- Are there hadiths about the state of fake scholars or the scholars who issue wrong fatwas deliberately?
- Will you give information about the Imams of the four madhhabs?
- How Can We Be Sure That the Hadiths of the Prophet (PBUH) Reached Us Without Distortion?
- How Can We Be Sure That the Hadiths of the Prophet (PBUH) Reached Us Without Distortion?
- "As for one who is the guardian of an orphan who has wealth, let him do business with it and not leave it until it becomes consumed by zakah." [Tirmidhi, Zakah 15, (641).] Will you explain this hadith?
- Will you give information about mutawatir hadiths? How many mutawatir hadiths are there? What is the decree of denying mutawatir hadiths?
- Will you give information about Shafii madhhab? When did Shafii madhhab originate? Who is its founder? What are his views? Will you explain it shortly?
