Re: Authenticity of Hadith
phatima no one doubts the sahaba....
hadith is declared unauthentic for many reasons....
some of them r: the chain of narrators is not complete till the Prophet (saw), the chain has a certain narrator who cannot be trusted, the wording of hadith is not in line with the language/teaching of the Prophet (saw), etc etc etc....
no one says that the sahabi who is mentioned in hadith lies....
just that one of the narrator in the chain of narrators through who it was passed, is not of trustworthy character....
also, hadith recording was started officially by government orders during the reign of Umar bin Abdul Aziz (ra)....
other individuals recorded it as early as during the lifetime of the Prophet (saw)....