The Term " Maqboul" Acceptable as used by Ibn-Hajar and its Applications Upon The Hadith Narrators fromThe Second and Third Layers in The Four Books of Islamic Sunen

This research addresses the Accepted Hadith term. This term is one of the terms of Al-Hafez Ibn Hajar in his book Al-Taqreeb . The research also examines the different reports by the reporters in the Four Sunan. Al-Hafez has determined the conditions of this term such as the absence of hadith. He also ranked it sixth among the different Taqreeb reporters. But Al-Hafez did not show his purpose behind this term, as a result, scholars have been divided into two teams. The first considered the accepted hadith which is reported by the reporter as being hasan (a hadith which is accepted by the majority of the Fuqaha) on its own. Others considered the hadith as hasan depending on others. Still, there are those who criticized this term. Through this research, the researcher concluded that Al-Hafez meant by the first condition that the reporter has little of hadith while in the second condition, he meant that the hadith is free of any Jarh or Ta'deel (Impingement and Validation). However, by deeply studying the reports of more than 287 different reporters, the researcher has found that the number of trusted reporters is only nine and the number of weak reporters is also eight , while the remaining 270 reporter are ignorant. Talking about mutaba'ah, which Al-Hafez did not abide by. The origion of the number of mutaba at for the hadeeth of the ignorant ( Majaheel ) reporter was (104). Seventeen of the them are correct mutaba at for seventeen reporters and another seventy one weak mutaba at for seventy-one reporters .There are also sixteen correct and weak mutaba at for sixteen reporters. This has been illustrated in special tables in the second chapter of the study. Regarding the decision about the accepted reporter (Maqboul), such reporter is considered ignorant and according to Ibn Hajar, this is the least of the degrees with respect to hadith reporting. Building on this, a hadith by an accepted (Maqboul) reporter is considered as weak and is never considered as correct even if it is provided with a correct mutaba'ah because it has a weak reporting. The fact that such hadith has weak reporting or that its reporter is weak has been the reason behind its weakness. Through this study, the research was able to observe the fact that 166 reporters deserve to be called Layyen Al-Hadith which means that their hadith is free from any mutaba'ah as Al-Hafez has stated in his book (Al-Taqreeb). Thus, the accepted reporter which has met the three conditions by Al-Hafez is the other side of the unknown reporter. Such reporter's hadith is considered weak even if it is provided with a correct mutaba'ah. The research has reached this through evidences, the different opinions by critics as well as studying more than 350 reports (Riwaya). The number of reporters that the researcher has studied in terms of Jarh and Ta'deel and with respect to their reports were 287 reporters. While the number of reporters that the researcher has studied in terms of Jarh and Ta'deel without studying their reports were 51 reporters, thus, the number of accepted reporters from the second and third rank is more than 337 reporters.