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Some Traditions that Appear to Conflict with Hadith alThaqalayn - Mu`adh ibn Jabal is the most knowledgeable among you regarding halal and haram.
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"Mu`adh ibn Jabal is the most knowledgeable among you regarding halal and haram."
Another tradition advanced in this context by Shah `Abd al-`Aziz is:
Mu`adh ibn Jabal is the most knowledgeable among you regarding halal and haram.
Sayyid Hamid Husayn points out that it has exclusively been narrated by the Sunnis. Muslim and al-Bukhari, although their traditions do not constitute any binding evidence for the Shi`ah, have avoided it in their compilations. Among a number of Sunni authorities who have considered it as weak or baseless are:
Ibn Taymiyyah,
Ibn `Abd al-Hadi,
al-Dhahabi, and
al-Munawi.
Among its narrators, Muhammad ibn `Abd al-Rahman alBaylamani, his father, Zayd al-`Ammi, Salim ibn Salim have been considered unreliable by several authorities on hadith and rijal, among them:
al-Bukhari,
al-Nasa'i,
al-Muqaddisi,
alDarqutni,
Ibn Hajar,
al-Dhahabi,
Ibn al-Jawzi and others.
Moreover, there are episodes recorded in Ibn Sa`d's al-Tabaqat, iii, 585 and Ibn `Abd al-Barr's al-'Isti`ab, iii, 1404 which indicate that Mu`adh did not possess the kind of competence claimed for him in the above tradition.
