While Muslim used Suwayd ibn Sa’id and others who were known...

While Muslim used Suwayd ibn Sa’id and others who were known of being unreliable and suspected position, and so did Abu Dawud. 590 Al-Shaykh Ahmad Muhammad Shakir (may God’s mercy be upon him), in his Sharh Alfiyyat al-Suyuti, writes: In the two Sahihs many traditions are found that were reported by some of the imposters. 591 And as is known, tadlis (fraud) 592 was considered one of reasons of jarh (sarcasm).

The same fact is referred to in the book Sharh Shurut al-A‘ìmmah al-Khamsah of al-Shaykh Muhammad Zahid al-Kawthari, on the authority of Ibn al-Hammam. 593 Muslim reported from a large number of those who were not immune against jarh and vilification, and so also found in Sahih al-Bukhari some narrators of unreliable position. Therefore narration was done through ijtihad of the ulama’…