The Authenticity of Companions in Narration of Hadith and its manifestations

Abstract

The Companions of the Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad Peace Be upon Him learned Hadith from Him and narrated it to the next generations with honesty and trustworthiness. Their integrity and sincerity for Islam was even witnessed by Al-Quran. There was diversity of skills among the companions of the Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad Peace Be Upon Him. Some of them were completely devoted for Hadith collection. Inspite of full devotion for collection of Hadith they were extremely careful in collection and reporting of Hadith. This reason that some of them have narrated only few Hadith. This tradition of carefulness in narration of Hadith was funded in life time of Holly Prophet and established during the period of rightly guided Caliphs. This article is aimed to clarify that carefulness in collection of Hadith was established in early period of Islam and it is not later phenomenon. This has been elaborated and justified in this article with some examples