The science of classes and its effect in revealing the fraud of narrators

Abstract

   The study aims to clarify the relationship between the science of classes, which Muslims have been interested in writing about and researching its details since the early days of writing in the sciences of hadith, and the detection of forgery, which is one of the defects that affect the chain of transmission in the noble narrations, which undermines them and may lead to their rejection.

 This relationship is based initially on a set of points mentioned in the science of classes as basic points that define it, and at the same time it relates to clarifying forgery in its various types, and it means: the date of birth of the narrators, the date of their death, their places of residence and travel, their sheikhs and students who narrated from them... and other things.

 It may be said that the science of classes is important in revealing transmission, especially hidden transmission, and not forgery, but what we found is that knowledge of classes determines many cases of forgery that can be found in the chains of transmission of authentic hadith.

 Accordingly, the research aims to clarify the relationship between the science of classes on the one hand, and the science of causes with regard to forgery in narrations on the other hand, and then extract the result from that connection by clarifying the effect of the class in revealing forgery in its various types. Keywords: the science of classes, detection, forgery, narrators, forged hadith.