Muhammad-Bin-Qasim
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Legend: To use the word questionable for all books other than Bukhari and Muslim would be plain wrong... The reality is that Bukhari and Muslim are not the only Sahih collections... but their "status" is high in the level of correctness... The issue of Hadith is complex but I think your comment requires a slight explanation...
So firstly there are other books that go up to the same status in authenticity... for example you have the Musnad of Imam Ahmad Bin Hanbal which is in the Musnad category and then the Motaa of Imam Malik... A better word to use instead of questionable would be lower level of authenticity... When the early Muslims collected the Ahadith they did not just collect the words of the prophet saw... rather they also worked on the chains of transmission... and the attempt was to quote the Prophet saw word for word... sometimes you ll find in the Hadith that the quotation is not word for word and the narrator is not sure of the exact words... but the meaning is delivered and understood... so obviously a word by word Hadith is taken as a higher level in authenticity but that does nt make the hadith which is not word for word but delivers a meaning or information as questionable...
Of course however... there are ahadith which are Modoo (fabricated) and Daeef (weak) in authority and narration... One should be aware of them...
Whatever we are told in the Hadith, does point to one thing that we are going thru a time of the fitnah of Dajjal... It is most certainly visible in the economic chaos that is engulfing the world today... Our job however is not to speculate over who or what Dajjal is... our job is to establish ourselves in a strong state where we are genuinely free from the influence of our enemies and live according to the justice of Islam... only this way we can shield ourself... God willing
So firstly there are other books that go up to the same status in authenticity... for example you have the Musnad of Imam Ahmad Bin Hanbal which is in the Musnad category and then the Motaa of Imam Malik... A better word to use instead of questionable would be lower level of authenticity... When the early Muslims collected the Ahadith they did not just collect the words of the prophet saw... rather they also worked on the chains of transmission... and the attempt was to quote the Prophet saw word for word... sometimes you ll find in the Hadith that the quotation is not word for word and the narrator is not sure of the exact words... but the meaning is delivered and understood... so obviously a word by word Hadith is taken as a higher level in authenticity but that does nt make the hadith which is not word for word but delivers a meaning or information as questionable...
Of course however... there are ahadith which are Modoo (fabricated) and Daeef (weak) in authority and narration... One should be aware of them...
Whatever we are told in the Hadith, does point to one thing that we are going thru a time of the fitnah of Dajjal... It is most certainly visible in the economic chaos that is engulfing the world today... Our job however is not to speculate over who or what Dajjal is... our job is to establish ourselves in a strong state where we are genuinely free from the influence of our enemies and live according to the justice of Islam... only this way we can shield ourself... God willing