Reddit reviews Encyclopedia of Hadith Forgeries: Sayings Misattributed to the Prophet Muhammad
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> The book above is a testament to that fact.
You mean this one that you linked and then edited out of your post?
Edit: No he didn't delete the link. I looked in the wrong place.
>When people were collecting ahadith, what would keep just about anyone from fabricating something and making up a solid chain of transmission?
>There really wouldn't be any way to verify any of the links in a chain of oral transmission, would there?
The first time I took a science class that included a lab in college, I remember the TA (teaching assistant) and Professors telling everyone point blank, "Don't falsify data we always know". And they do, I saw many people getting caught for it. The scholars who know Hadith know when a Hadith has been fabricated. I would recommend the book by Mulla Ali al Qari which was recently translated by a Muhhadith, Shaykh Gibril Fouad Haddad: Encyclopedia of Hadith Forgeries: Sayings Misattributed to the Prophet Muhammad. Historically speaking, in Iraq, people began forging Hadith's to backup their political affiliations, but once the science of Hadith came into its own, people were able to know, the book linked above is a fruition of that.