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Sahih Muslim 57 — Claims of Many Hadiths
Unveiling Defects of the Transmitters of Ḥadīth and Relaters of Reports and the Statements of the A’immah Regarding That
Claims of Many Hadiths: Checking Reports Before Accepting Them
Sahih Muslim : 57
Sahih MuslimHadith Number 57
وَحَدَّثَنِي إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ الْيَشْكُرِيُّ، قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا الْوَلِيدِ، يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ سَلاَّمَ بْنَ أَبِي مُطِيعٍ، يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ جَابِرًا الْجُعْفِيَّ، يَقُولُ عِنْدِي خَمْسُونَ أَلْفَ حَدِيثٍ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم .
Ibrāhīm bin Khālid al-Yashkurī Narrated from:
Ibrāhīm bin Khālid al-Yashkurī narrated to me, he said, I heard Abūl-Walīd saying, I heard Sallām bin Abī Mutī’ saying, I heard Jābir al-Ju’fī saying: ‘I have fifty thousand Ḥadīth on authority of the Prophet, peace and blessings upon him’.
[1] Yūsuf 12:80.Reference : Sahih Muslim Introduction 57In-book reference : Introduction, Narration 56
Summary of Sahih Muslim Hadith 57
This report records a claim from Jābir al-Ju'fī that he had fifty thousand hadith from the Prophet, peace and blessings upon him. The text is short, but it belongs to a group of reports that warn about narrator reliability and questionable claims. The lesson should be kept close to the wording. The report does not list the fifty thousand hadith, and it does not invite blind acceptance of the claim. Instead, it shows why hadith narrator reliability matters. A person may claim access to a huge number of reports, but the claim still needs to be weighed through trust, chains, and known reliability. For a reader, the simple takeaway is this: in hadith study, big claims need careful checking.
What we learn from this hadith
- Large claims about prophetic reports should be treated carefully.
- A claim is not enough without reliable support.
- The narrator’s trustworthiness matters in accepting hadith.
- Hadith students should not be impressed by numbers alone.
