However...

However, due to his errors, his ahadith are only of the hasan grading, according to some top Sunni hadith scientists. In our humble view, making mistakes in 4 out of every 90 ahadith is not enough to degrade his ahadith from the level of sahih reports or to reject them altogether as some Sunnis do! The third narrator, al-Rukayn (previously mistakenly mis-transliterated as al-Rakin), is thiqah (trustworthy), as quoted by Imam Ibn Shahin (d. 385 H): الركين بن الربيع ثقة قاله أحمد Al-Rukayn b.

al-Rabi’: Thiqah (trustworthy). Ahmad said so.[^15] Imam Ibn Hibban (d. 354 H) has also included his name among the thiqah (trustworthy) narrators.[^16] More interestingly, al-Rukayn is relied upon as a hujjah by Imam Muslim in his Sahih.[^17] This, apparently, is also why Shaykh al-Arnaut has graded the chain of an independent…