Period of Collecting

The doubt says:

The hadith remained unwritten for two hundred years, then after this long period, the hadith scholars decided to collect the hadith and Muslims rely on the prophetic hadiths and consider them complementary to the Holy Quran. There is a possibility of errors, additions and deletions in the hadiths they rely on. The response to the doubt: The companions, may God be pleased with them, were keen to preserve the hadith since the time of the Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, because they believed that the hadith and the prophetic Sunnah are the second legislation after the Holy Quran. Generations continued to preserve the prophetic hadiths in their hearts until the hadiths were placed in their chains of transmission in books. They were not placed or collected in a random manner, but rather they were placed according to the scientific principles followed by Muslims to collect hadiths from the chain of transmission and the text and the science of criticism and authentication. Thanks to the scholars of hadith, there are books that have collected the authentic hadiths , and there are others that have collected the weak and good hadiths

The authenticity of each hadith was based on continuous research into the authenticity of the hadith, as well as their knowledge of the narrators of the hadith, their conditions, and the date of their death. Of course, there are conditions set by Muslim scholars for accepting

hadiths so that they are transmitted as they were on the tongue of the Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, so that they are transmitted with honesty and truthfulness. Also, conditions were set for the narrators of the hadith themselves, which is that they be extremely honest and trustworthy, and also have strong memory and control in their chests or in their books or both, which enables them to recall the hadith and perform it as they heard it. Hadith scholars were not satisfied with this, but they set conditions for written narration that those intruders did not notice. The hadith scholars set conditions for the written narration of the authentic hadith, and therefore we find on the manuscripts of hadith the chain of transmission of the book from one narrator to another until it reaches its author, and we find on them proof of hearings, and the handwriting of the author or the heard sheikh who narrates the copy from the copy of the author or from its branch, so the method of the hadith scholars in this was stronger, wiser and more cautious than any method in scrutinizing written narrations and documents.

Also, the research of the chain of transmission began since the fitnah occurred in the year 35 AH to protect the hadiths from forgery, error, forgery and other things that might distort the credibility of the prophetic hadiths due to their importance in Islamic legislation, so the hadith scholars did not ignore what the people of innovations had put in place, so the controls and conditions were put in place to ensure the transmission of hadith. The great diversity of hadith is not only due to its conditions in terms of acceptance or rejection, but it also includes the research of its narrators, chains of transmission, and texts. This is evidence of the depth of the view of the hadith scholars and the precision of their research. Among the things that are used to prove the precision of knowledge and the mastery of its people are its divisions and variations. Indeed, what does not have divisions into sections and variations of types is not considered knowledge