الباطن
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The discipline of grading narrators as rejected or acceptable
(عِلْم الجَرْح وَالتَّعْدِيل)
من موسوعة المصطلحات الإسلامية
المعنى الاصطلاحي
A science that examines the rules for accepting or rejecting narrations and the methods to make accurate judgments concerning the narrators.
الشرح المختصر
"`Ilm-ul-Jarh-wat-Ta`deel": one of the most precise, noble, and serious disciplines of the Shariah. It includes the rules and criteria used to identify accepted and rejected narrations, to distinguish trustworthy narrators from less credible ones, and to favor some scholarly opinions over others about Hadith narrators.
التعريف
al-jarḥ wal-taꜤdīl