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transmitters or authorities, hence supposedly ruling out the
possibility of its having been forged." 107 Generally reliable

hadith are those which are reported by so many hadith ex-
perts that there is no room left for error. The Islamic scholar
Sayyid al-Jurjani expounded on this concept as follows:
Generally reliable reports are those that attain such a level
[of agreement] among the majority of narrators that, ac-
cording to custom, it is [considered] impossible for so
many reporters to agree on a falsehood. In
that event, if the report's words
and meaning are consistent,
then this is known as the "re-
liability of the word." If there is
agreement among all of them
in both sense and meaning,
but a conflict in words, then
this is known as "conceptual reli-
ability." 108
In his Al-Tasrih fi ma
Tawatara fi Nuzul al-Masih,
the great hadith scholar
Muhammad Anwar Shah Kashmiri
wrote that the hadith about the Prophet
Jesus' (pbuh) second coming are all
reliable, and quotes 75 hadith
and 25 works by the Prophet's
(may Allah bless him and grant
him peace) Companions and
their disciples (Tabi'un).