The introduction to the book Al-Muḥarrir in Hadith

The most important topics that the investigators classified as the sayings of rulings because of their part and then a high fruit among the sciences of religion. This is a summarized version that includes a number of the Prophetic sayings in Islamic legal rulings. The author has exerted effort in its abbreviation and selection of its sayings, bringing together sayings that encompass meanings in the chapter, presenting what is agreed upon, and noting the differences in wording. This book is also considered a summary of the reasons for the sayings, where the author mentions who authenticates the hadith or who weakens it, based on the words of the imams and critics, and their copies, and their comments in response. Often, he relied on the words of Imams Ahmad ibn Hanbal and al-Bukhari, may Allah have mercy on them, in authentication, strengthening, and invalidation, relying on a methodology. As for the later scholars, many of them looked at the narrators and thought the hadith was authentic, believing the hadith was correct, without paying attention to the subtle details of the hadith in this book. The book "Al-Muharrar in Hadith" is a very important book on the sayings of rulings, mentioning the hadiths used as evidence by the Hanbali school. It achieved a kind of comprehensiveness that some other books on the sayings of rulings, which are specific to the hadiths used as evidence by a particular school, lack. About the author: Al-Hafiz Ibn Abdul Hadi is Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Abdul Hadi ibn Abdul Hamid ibn Yusuf ibn Muhammad ibn Qudama al-Jama'ili, then al-Salihi al-Dimashqi. He was born in Rajab of the year 705 AH. He grew up with a sound scholarly upbringing, having memorized Al-Muqni' (a famous Hanbali manual) at the age of ten under Judge Suleiman ibn Hamza. Among his most important works are "Al-Muharrar in Hadith," "Al-Tanqih in Hadith of Commentary," and others. He passed away on the 10th of Jumada al-Awwal in the year 744 AH, at the age of 39, due to illness and fever.