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Al-Manar al-Munif fi 'l-Sahih wa ‘l-Da'if, or The Towering Lighthouse on the Sound and Weak [Hadith] by Ibn Qayyim (d. 1350) is one of the best known works on the subject of fabricated hadith and also one of the author’s last, written in 1348, almost three years prior to his death. The original book contains three fatwas by Ibn Qayyim on the subject of hadith scrutiny and this book contains a complete translation of his second fatwa, the lengthiest of the three and covering approximately 100 pages; in it, the author was asked to explain whether it is possible to identify fabricated hadiths without knowing the science of isnad criticism. and goes on to identify numerous signs that indicate a hadith is false.