Often it is ascribed to Mu’awiyah by his followers that he had righteous virtues, however when the matter is investigated we find both...

Ahmad b. Hanbal is a major and prominent scholars from Ahlus Sunnah. He is arguably one of their most important narrators with a major contribution to the hadith corpus completed with his Musnad. In this article, we will demonstrate clear censorship and tampering of Hadiths committed by Ahmad b. Hanbal because of his bias beliefs, placing a clear doubt on his credibility and reliability for as a Hadith author. Below we have mentioned 9 cases of clear tampering by Ahmad.

Oftentimes when the narrations of Imam Ali’s merits are quoted, other schools in Islam will often cite the words of scholars who would weaken the narrations in terms of their matn (content) or sanad (chain of transmission). One of the most infamous examples of this is al-Dhahabi, who weakened many of the merits of Ali transmitted by al-Hakim al-Neyshaburi in his Mustadrak. How reliable are the gradings of al-Dhahabi?

Sufyan b. Sa’eed b. Masruq al-Thawri was a famous Tabi’i jurist of the 2nd century. He narrates many hadiths, tafsir and had his own...

The study of narrators (ilm al-Rijal) is a very important science when it comes to the preservation of Islamic shari'ah...

Our opponents from Ahlus Sunnah are always criticising other groups of Muslims for their opinions on certain companions. They claim to love and follow all the companions of the Prophet (s) and disassociate from anyone who slanders or even crticises them. We have something interesting to present to you regarding the words of Ibn Taymiyyah. We read the following in Minhaj al-Sunnah, vol 8, pg 573: ‌وَلَيْسَتْ ‌هَذِهِ ‌رَزِيَّةً فِي حَقِّ أَهْلِ التَّقْوَى الَّذِينَ يَهْتَدُون