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It's maybe too apologetic for your liking, but the article was fair and addressed everything.Yeah, it was almost too apologetic. Tries too hard to discredit any legitimate criticism. Even Ibn Hajr said in his introduction to his commentary in Bukhari that he himself cannot put up a defense against some of the criticism regarding the authenticity of some hadiths in Bukhari.
It says in Muqaddimat Sharh al-Bukhaari: ad-Daaraqutni had some reservations about a few hadiths in al-Bukhaari and Muslim, which he doubted, but this doubt was based on unsound guidelines set out by some hadith scholars that are contrary to the view of most scholars of fiqh, usool and other fields, so we should not pay any attention to that.
Al-Haafiz said:
When we study the context of these hadiths and examine them in detail, it will become apparent that this criticism is not valid. His comment in Sharh Muslim, “All of their reservations, or most of them, have been addressed by other scholars” is correct. End quote. Muqaddimat al-Fath, p. 344.
Ok, now tell us which Hadiths in Sahih Bukhari did the Ulema of Hadith like Ibn Hajr, Nawawi... made Daef?