Step One: List the narrators of the hadeeth and write down the key points from
their biographies as found in Taqreeb at Tah’theeb.
class: 7-12, the hadeeth is automatically classified “Da’eef” and is rejected.
that they all could have me each other. If no two narrators could have met each
other, the sanad is classified as “Munqati’” and the hadeeth itself is judged da‘eef
and rejected.
determine whether they all could have narrated from whom they claim to be
narrating from.
narrate from whom he claims to be narrating and is himself classified from the 5th
or 6th class of narrators, the hadeeth is then considered da‘eef and rejected.
narrator is from the 4th class or above, a further check should be made to see if
this was an exception, and if not, it is then classified mursal and put aside as
possible support for other questionable narrations.