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The hadith “Man kadhaba ‘alayya…” is one of the most famous hadiths of
the Prophet Muhammed among the academicians of Islamic disciplines. One of the
most important reasons for its fame comes from a consensus that almost all scholars
of hadith considered it as a ‘mutawatir literally’ hadith. However, this hadith
takes place in classical hadith sources in a number of different accounts by different
narrators. Thus, there must be a reason why scholars considered this hadith as
a ‘mutawatir literally’ in spite of the fact that it is related in different wordings by
different narrators.
In this article, the process of narration of the hadith in question will be investigated
critically after an analytical study of the meaning of the term ‘mutawatir
literally’ from theoretical point of view within the context of the science of usul alhadith.
It is emphasized in this article that in contrary to the common belief that
this hadith is narrated with same wordings from the Companions of the Prophet,
most of the times, it is narrated in different wordings by different narrators from a
single Companion.