the noble ones, about whom the well-known saying applies: "He became raisins before he was sour grapes"; because they are ignorant of this knowledge firstly, then they do not give any weight to those who are knowledgeable about it, whether ancient or modern scholars, secondly, and thirdly, there may be a hidden malice and a destructive admiration for one's own opinion. The state of one of them is as if saying: "O earth, be firm, there is no one on you like me!" as is said in some countries! Before me now is a small booklet titled "The Weak Ḥadīths in the Series of Authentic Ḥadīths" by the so-called Ramaḍān Maḥmūd ʿĪsá, published by Dār al-Fikr - Khartoum. He criticized twelve ḥadīths from this volume of "The Authentic Series." I did not find in his criticism anything of knowledge and understanding that could be benefited from. Rather, he merely regurgitates some scientific principles to which he clings, without having grasped or understood them well. His method of criticism is to quote my words and my grading of the ḥadīth, then follow it with his ignorant and biased critique under the title (Commentary), then he presents his crude opinion in weakening the ḥadīth. This varies depending on the type of ḥadīth: sometimes he weakens a trustworthy narrator by quoting someone who said: "He narrates oddities from so-and-so" (p. 17), and this does not mean absolute weakening in the terminology of the scholars; for it is not like someone who is said to be: "a denier of ḥadīth." At other times, he is unaware that the statement of a Companion: "It is from the sunnah to do such-and-such"; is considered as marfūʿ (p. 34), thus he weakened the following ḥadīth numbered (229), and he does not give any weight at all to the practice of the Companions with it, which is a sign of his complete ignorance and lack of appreciation for the commendation