Section’s Conclusion

 

No matter what, the existence of one problematic tradition in a book does not justify scrapping the whole book altogether. There is always the possibility that there is an insertion in it by someone, or the author himself may have had an oversight, that is, when he meant to say `Abd al-Rahman ibn Abu Bakr (rather than saying Muhammed ibn Abu Bakr), or some other possibility. In respected books, there are many such matters, yet nobody undermined their reliability.