Abstract
The exercise of checking authenticity of Hadith had been started from the era of the companions of Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم .This continued for ages and lastly ended up by emerging the two different approaches for declaration of Hadith’s authenticity. One of them is the approach of Muhaddithin and the other one is approach of Akhnaaf. Each one of them declares the Hadith unacceptable (Daif) or Authentic according to their prescribed rules. Although most of these rules are agreed by both of them yet disagreement also happens in some of them. Hence, sometime one Hadith becomes authentic with Muhaddithin and unacceptable (Daif) with Akhnaaf and vice versa. This makes the same Islamic command lawful with Muhaddithin and unlawful with Akhnaaf and vice versa. In this research paper the comparative study of the famous reasons of their disagreement for example: different condition for being Hadith authentic, different views regarding Shuzooz and Ilat, different conditions of Khabr e Wahid for being it acceptable and disagreement in proof of Hadith’s words etc. have been presented.
Keyword(s)
Authenticity, Hadith, Muhaddithin, Akhnaaf, Reasons of Disagreement