أثر مستخرج أبي عوانة في دفع الانتقادات الواردة على الرواة متكلم فيهم في صحيح مسلم

Sahih Muslim is not free from criticism like other books as well. Most of the criticism are on its narrators, where the narrator is an important element in determining the acceptance or rejection of a hadith. The criticisms against the narrators in Sahih Muslim may affect its validity. However, with the presence of ‘al-Mustakhrajat’ genre especially Mustakhraj Abi ᶜAwanah, such criticisms can be addressed through its narrations. Based on this, this study seeks to identify the types of criticism correlated with contentious narrators in the Sahih Muslim. This study employs inductive, analytical and critical methodology on the narrations of Mustakhraj Abi ᶜAwanah for dealing with those criticisms. This study found that Mustakhraj Abi ᶜAwanah is one of the books that has strong effect to react against criticism and to defend the hadith narrators in particular the narrations of Sahih Muslim along with supporting their narrations through other reliable narrators.