HADITHS THAT HAVE THE TENDENCY OF BEING FABRICATED

Hadith scholars who conducted through and effective classification studies for the differentiation between authentic and fabricated hadiths categorized all hadiths after studying them one by one. As a result of such studies, fabricated hadiths have been compiled into separate books. Some critics who have surveyed this vast compilation of fabricated hadiths in detail have tried to determine the hadiths that tend to be fabricated so that readers could easily recognize them.   

Following on from such studies, the hadiths that have the tendency to be fabricated are given below:

1. Hadiths about prayers being performed on a specific day or night of the year or week,
2. Hadiths on the virtue of the month of Rajab and fasting performed in this month,
3. Hadiths informing about specific events that will happen at a specific time,
4. Hadiths declaring that the signs of the Day of Judgment will arise in certain months.
5. Hadiths decrying Turks, Ethiopians or the Sudanese,
6. Hadiths decrying or praising Imam Abu Hanifah or Imam al-Shafii by mentioning their names,
7. Hadiths about the lives of Hidhir or Elijah,
8. Hadiths about the sects of Murjia, Jahmiyya, Qadariyyah, and Asariyyah,
9. Hadiths decrying or praising places like Alexandria, Damietta, Basra, Baghdad, Kazveen, Jordan, Abadan, Jeddah, Askalan, Nusaybeen, Antakya, Khorasan, Merv, Bukhara, Samarqand, Tus, Herat, Kairouan, or Morocco,
10. Hadiths about the graves of prophets or other important people,
11. Hadiths about the virtues of the day of Ashura and praising the use of surmah, dressing up, feeling sad, performing prayers, dispensing charity and cooking ashura on this day,
12. Hadiths about foods like lentil, rice, broad beans, eggplants, oranges, grapes, leeks, watermelons, walnuts, cheese and halva and flowers and plants like the rose, daffodil or violet,
13. Hadiths on the virtues of meat and hadiths prohibiting eating outdoors or cutting meat with a knife,
14. Hadiths including the epithet of Aisha, Humayra, or starting with "Ya Humayra,"
15. Hadiths that start with the expression, "O Ali, something has 3 signs," and bequeathing various things to Ali. Among these hadiths, "Ya Ali, you are to me as Aaron to Moses," is authenticated.
16. Most of the hadiths about the verses of the Quran. According to Imam al-Suyuti, the verses about which there are hadiths are the following: al-Fatihah, al-Baqarah, Al-Imran, An-Nisa, Al-Maidah, Al-An'am, Al-A'raf, At-Taubah, Al-Kahf, Ya-sin, Ad-Dukhan, Al-Mulk, Az-Zalzalah, An-Nasr, Al-Kafiroon, Al-Ikhlas, Al-Falaq, and An-Nas.
17. Most of the hadiths on the increase or decrease of faith,
18. Hadiths concerning the virtues of naming a child Muhammad or Ahmad. There is no authenticated hadith on this subject.
19. All of the hadiths decrying having a child,
20. Hadiths praising bachelordom,
21. Hadiths about the virtues of ring stones made of cornelian.