Isnaad
Isnaad Means chain of narration of a hadeeth.
Sufyaan ath-Thawree rahimahullah said
"The isnaad is the weapon of the believer. So if there is no waepon, with what will he fight"
Ibn al-Mubarak rahimahullah said:
"The isnaad for me is from the Deen, If there were no isnaad, then who-soever wanted would relate, whatever they wanted"
Ibn Seereen rahimahullah said:
"They never used to ask about the isnaad, but when the civil war broke out they said: Name to us your men; those who belonged to ahl-us-Sunnah, their Ahadeeths were accepted and those who were innovators, their Ahaadeeth were rejected"
Reference:
Page ii of the englidh translation of the Book "The Creed of the Pious Predecessors, The People of Hadeeth." By Aboo 'Uthmaan Ismaeel Ibn 'Abdur-Rahmaan As-Saaaboonee published by Masjd Ibnu Taymeeyah.
Isnaad Means chain of narration of a hadeeth.
Sufyaan ath-Thawree rahimahullah said
"The isnaad is the weapon of the believer. So if there is no waepon, with what will he fight"
Ibn al-Mubarak rahimahullah said:
"The isnaad for me is from the Deen, If there were no isnaad, then who-soever wanted would relate, whatever they wanted"
Ibn Seereen rahimahullah said:
"They never used to ask about the isnaad, but when the civil war broke out they said: Name to us your men; those who belonged to ahl-us-Sunnah, their Ahadeeths were accepted and those who were innovators, their Ahaadeeth were rejected"
Reference:
Page ii of the englidh translation of the Book "The Creed of the Pious Predecessors, The People of Hadeeth." By Aboo 'Uthmaan Ismaeel Ibn 'Abdur-Rahmaan As-Saaaboonee published by Masjd Ibnu Taymeeyah.
I use the second quote a lot