Why is this report resurfacing now? In 2023, a digital scan of Report 176 was allegedly uploaded to a dark web repository for 3.2 Bitcoin. The seller, pseudonym "Al-Majlisi’s Ghost," claims the report proves that 40% of the narrators deemed "Weak" in classical Islam were actually politically inconvenient, not forgetful.
"He has narrated forty hadiths, and all of them are contrary to the truth." Rijal Al Kashi Report 176
Is it time to rewrite the books based on these 22 narrators, or should Report 176 return to the dust? Why is this report resurfacing now
Later usulis (principlists), such as Muhammad Baqir al-Wahid al-Bihbahani (d. 1791), argued that Report 176 does not impugn Yunus directly. Instead, it only explains why Hasan ibn Faddal personally avoided Yunus. In other words, it is a report about Hasan’s personal ijtihad (legal reasoning), not an objective fact about Yunus’s standing. "He has narrated forty hadiths, and all of
