Abstract

Scholars have developed rules and methodologies to identify fabricated Hadiths and to scrutinize the text and chain of narrators of Hadiths. In this paper, some of these efforts are highlighted. This study was made using library research and content descriptive analysis methods for the information obtained from published books and papers. The study has shown that tremendous efforts were made to resist fabrications and to expose fabricators since the third century AH. Furthermore, the paper discusses a lot of factors and reasons that lead to the fabrication of Hadith such as fabricating for the purpose of supporting one sect, race, tribe among others. The paper also highlights some principles in tracking the genuine and fabricated Ahadith. Furthermore, the paper brought some examples of fabricated Ahadith and concluded. The analytical method was used when conducting the research

Keywords

Hadih, fabrications, Prophetic traditions, scholars’ Factors, effort, Ahadith