A Qualitative Analysis of Fabricated Hadiths

The present text is a critical review of the book " al Mouduat fil Akhbar wal Athar " written by Ashim Ma`ruf al Hasani. The above mentioned book is a contemporary work which is concerned with fabricated hadiths and is criticized at length by this paper. The author of this paper tries to prove that though some inter- and intra- religious conspiracies have polluted the field of hadith scholarship but it does not mean that all the hadith collections are filled with fabricated hadiths and those who carefully studied hadith books in order to find fabricated hadiths, could not find many radical fabricated hadiths. Lack of high precision and transparency of principles and also lack of criteria for finding fabricated haiths and carelessness in finding examples for these criteria have led to unscientific and wrong judgments concerning these hadiths.