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[quote][quote]Suppose a hadith is declared sahih by the scholars and it does not contradict the Qur'an or the Sunnah or the common sense will it be considered absolute truth. In your response you said 'yes.' Most scholars do not hold this view. They think that individual reprots never provide absolute source of knowledge for there are many inherent problems in such a report for example the narrator could not correctly hear the speaker, failed to understand what the speaker meant, or did not know the background of the conversation and ended in misinterpreting the saying, could not retain complete picture and passed on wiht additions and omittion from the account. Therefore, we practice on the facts reported after much analysis for the religion is the most serious concern of a believer. We do not belive that the report is 100% correct and accurate mention of the prophetic saying or act. 
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Asalam Aalaikum

I have read your argument and would like to comment on it if you dont mind.
If a hadith passes a criterion set by the Scholars of Hadith and doesnot also contradict the teachings of Qur'an ,then I dont think their should be any room for questioning the authenticity of the hadith, as far as the narrators are concerned, Iam not expert in the Rijal(Knowledge of the narrators of hadith) but what my common sense expresses is that If the hadith passes the criterion set by the Scholars of Hadith and doesnot contradict the Qur'an ,then we should accept it irrespective of whether the narrators who narrated it might have not heard it correctly.
You say that hadiths donot provide absolute knowledge inspite of even passing through the proceedures mentioned above since chain of narrators of hadiths should also be brought into consideration.
If any hadith which is claimed to have a consistent chain of narrators without any break but still contradicts the Qur'an, what would be your opinon about that hadith?

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