Al-Matrūk (The Discarded)

Footnotes

1. ʿAllāmah al-Dhahabī's fourth category reads, at al-Mūqiẓa, p. 34 in Shaykh ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ Abū Ghuddah's edition (Maktabat al-Maṭbūʿāt al-Islāmiyya, Aleppo, second edition, 1412): "Al-maṭrūḥ: that which falls below the rank of the ḍaʿīf" ‏«المطروح: ما انحطَّ عن رُتبة الضعيف»‏, the examples following on p. 35 and closing "and the like of these, from the matrūkūn and the halkā". The reading maṭrūḥ on that page is Shaykh ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ Abū Ghuddah's own: he states in his note there that the manuscript has munkar, which he takes to be a copyist's error, since al-Dhahabī treats al-munkar separately as the fourteenth type, and he supports the correction from ʿAllāmah al-Sakhāwī's Fatḥ al-Mughīth, where al-Sakhāwī records that al-Dhahabī made al-maṭrūḥ an independent category and that Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar judged it to be al-matrūk in substance. Al-Dhahabī uses the word elsewhere in the book without any such doubt: at p. 36, of a report most authorities hold to be fabricated, he gives the view of the others, "it is a fallen, discarded ḥadīth, and we do not dare to call it fabricated" ‏«هو حديثٌ ساقطٌ مطروح، ولا نَجسُرُ أن نُسمِّيَه موضوعاً»‏; and at p. 67 he writes that it is forbidden to narrate the fabricated and the maṭrūḥ except with an explanation, so that people may beware of them. [tr.] ↩

2. That is, ḍaʿīf jiddan (severely weak). [tr.] ↩

3. al-Mūqiẓa, pp. 34 to 35; Sharḥ al-Nukhba, p. 59. ↩