Also, it is not likely that a large number of people in lands close by would be observing the moon at the exact same time. They had no reason to. Even if some one did, it does not necessarily mean people believed him and kept a written record of it.
If there’s many other ppl saying the same thing, but none of them were first hand witnesses, it just means they sat at the same campfire to hear the same story. We need some verifiable firsthand accounts.
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Thats why he would check if they were in the right places at the right time. Whether their fore fathers were there. Were they known to lie or not. Whether some were lying. If a narration was weak it would not be accepted. Just look into his methodology for collecting hadiths.
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You think they kept background checks about people’s grandparents. Most people today don’t have a well-recorded biography. What makes you think that people from 600-850 CE did? Do you think every lie told by someone back then was discovered too? Bukhari has limited resources.
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Thats the difference between Islam and everyone else.
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Plus if someones account contradicts with several other accounts. It won't be accepted. I'm starting to read a book on the the methadology of hadith literature. Thos again is not my strong point. IslamQA is a good site from a well respected and much more knowledgeable scholar.
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IslamQA is not good. They said that the 2 women witnesses could remind each other for a more accurate story. In court, that’s called collusion. That could cause them to ‘remember’ their account with details that weren’t there before. Both testimonies would be deemed unreliable.
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But why do I care what happens in a non-shariah court.
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Because it’s backed by science and experimentation. Eye witness accounts are not always accurate and can change when different witnesses discuss their stories.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x6fRH5MLBIU …
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Like I said check with Islamic scholars.
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