Abstract
Praise be to God, and prayers and peace be upon the Messenger of God, his family, companions and those who are loyal to him until the Day of Judgment, and after:
It is well known to the scholars in general and the people of hadith in particular that al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar is a basic reference from the references of the people of hadith in Jarh and Tadheel, especially in his book Taqrib al-Tahdheeb.
The one looking at this book may find a discrepancy in criticism between Al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar and the scholars of Al-Jarh and Al-Ta’deel for one translation, which raises the question why this discrepancy?! Including, but not limited to; I found Al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar to judge some narrators as fraudulent, and this ruling is unique to other scholars of Al-Jarh and Tadheel, so I wanted to know why this ruling was from Al-Hafiz.
Al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar, may God have mercy on him, may judge the narrator of fraud as soon as one of the imams of the wound and the modification is insulted by fraud, even if the narrator did not commit fraud except rarely, perhaps he did so to take precaution and beware of the narration from that narrator, and God knows best.
Al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar, the scholars of Al-Jarh and Al-Ta’deel, agreed with nine of the narrators that they were fraudulent, and they are:
(The bakea Ibn Al-Walid, Hajjaj bin Arta bin Thor, Hamid bin Abi Hamid Al-Taweel, Saeed bin Abi Orouba, Saeed bin Al-Marzban Al-Absi, Maymoon bin Musa Al-Masri Al-Basri, Hashim bin Bashir bin Al-Qasim, Al-Waleed bin Muslim, and Yahya bin Abi Hayya). Among these translations, they are famous and known for fraud, and God knows best.
Al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar did not agree with the imams of Al-Jarh and Al-Ta’deel in six of the narrators, and they are:
(Ayoub bin Al-Najjar bin Ziyad, Habib bin Abi Thabet, Al-Hasan bin Ali bin Rashid, Safwan bin Saleh bin Safwan bin Dinar Al-Thaqafi, Atiya bin Saad bin Janada, Al-Muttalib bin Abdullah bin Hantab), and after studying the translations (narrators) it was correct to say For the imams of Jarh and Ta’deel, and God Almighty knows best. Praise be to Allaah.