If a transgressor comes to you with news...

If a transgressor comes to you with news, then investigate, lest you harm a people in ignorance, and you would become remorseful upon what you have done [49:6] \n In the Holy Verse [49:6] , Allah -azwj has already Said that if a transgressor brings a piece of news, then investigate the news – as it could either be correct or false \u2018news\u2019.

In the event of correct news, one has to accept the news – even if it was originally being reported by a transgressor\/unreliable person!\u00a0 This would eradicate the reliance of the above man-made criteria, i.e., ilm ad-diraya , `ilm ar-rijal – but why?

Let\u2019s revisit the earlier (Second Hadith above): \n When it was asked from Imam -asws : \n \u2018I asked Abu Abdullah -asws about the differing in the Hadeeth, shall I report it from the one whom I trust it with, and among them were ones whom I do not trust with it ?\u2019 So, he -asws said: \u2018 When a Hadeeth is reported to you, and you find evidence for it from the Book of Allah -azwj , or from the words of Rasool-Allah -saww , then he who brought it to you is more deserving of it (so believe in him if authentic, or return it to him if it cannot be verified)\u2019.