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Imām Abu Bakr Al-Bazzār – may Allah have mercy on him - developed his Musnad in which he differentiated between rightful and misleading narrations (Ḥadīth). Upon distinguishing between the rightful and the problematic narrations, he stressed on the importance of authenticity of narrators, communicators and senders. His major contributions heavily emphasized on the singularity of the narrator transmitting the Ḥadīth. In this paper, the purpose is to examine those narrations and reconnoiter the singularity of narrator mentioned as to whether it is rightful or misleading, hence being problematic. Particularly, this paper critically investigates the chain of narrators in Musnad Imām Al-Bazzār who categorized the singularity of narrators as problematic due to the narrators being unknown or infamous. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In every period, hadith experts have contributed to the preservation of the Hadith. Imam Malik composed M’ūaṭa to safeguard the hadith, and Imam al-Bukhari afterwards turned to al-Mu'tah for assistance. The research methodology of this paper is an analytical study of the reliance of Imām Bukhārī on Al-M’ūaṭa Imam Mālik in Ṣaḥiḥ Bukhārī. In our article, we came to the conclusion that Imam Bukhari recounted a total of six hundred sixty-eight narrations from Imam Malik in his Sahih, of which six hundred four are scriptural narrations that he took from ten versions of Al- M’ūaṭa. As a result, these narrations make up more than ninety percent of all narrations. Contrasted with in his Sahih, Imam Muslim narrates three hundred eighty-nine narrations from Imam Malik, three hundred twelve of which are scriptural narrations that he has derived from eight of narrations of al M’ūaṭa's. These narrations so account for more than eighty percent of all narrations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]