Re: Tawatur/Mutawatir
Iconolclast to answer your question which essentially means
"is a widely reported hadith neccesarily a more authentic hadith"
I think it all comes down to "The character of the narrators" eventually ....
e.g in ur example narraters are e.g al-jazeera, the hindu and jang
but a report conflicting to this might come from reuters or BBC ...which might be deemed more authentic sources by a authority
a mutawatur hadith will have all the other characterisitcs of a sahih hadith
secondly a mutawatur hadith is one which is narrated by so many narraters that its impossible that they could have entered into a conspiracy and invented it
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Authenticity is a certificate given by a scholar deeming a given saying as passing the criteria for what is being checked i.e. completion of narration and widely transmitted, but it is not a license for saying something is true or not. Just heavily reliable or not
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but if a hadith is authentic then it can safely be assumed to be the word of Holy Prophet and then its naturally true
maybe i dont understand what u are implying