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Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as 26 it is fulfilled—either in your lifetime or before—then consider such a hadith to be true and consider the scholars and narrators of the hadith—who judged it weak and fabricated—as being mis- taken or liars. Hundreds of ahaadeeth which contain prophecies are considered doubtful, fabricated, or weak by Hadith scholars. If any such hadith happens to come true, and you refuse to accept it on the grounds that it is weak, or one of its narrators lack in piety, you will only establish your own faithlessness for having rejected a hadith which was shown to be truthful by God. Reflect: Should there be a thousand of such hadith adjudged to be weak in the view of Hadith scholars, yet a thousand prophecies contained within them were proven true, would you then declare all these ahaadeeth to be weak, thereby depriving Islam of thousands of its testimonies? Thusly would you become enemies of Islam. Allah Almighty says: 1 اَلَف ُرِهْظُي ىٰلَع ٖۤهِبْيَغ اًدَحَا اَّلِا ِنَم ىٰضَتْرا ْنِم ٍلْوُسَّر Thus, true prophecies can only be attributed to truthful Messengers. In such instances, is it not closer to piety to suggest that a Hadith scholar has mistakenly declared an authentic hadith as weak, than to say that God has erroneously authenticated a false one? Even if a hadith is deemed inauthentic, it ought to be followed as long as it does not contradict the Quran and Sunnah, and other 1. He does not grant anyone ascendancy over His domain of the unseen. Except him whom He chooses as His Messenger ( Surah al-Jinn , 72:27– 28). [Publisher]