Hadith leads people astray?? How??

#Arkview FULL ACCESS Arkview.teachable.com "Hadith is a means of going astray." What?? I remember the first time I hears that from my fiqh teacher and was shocked. What he meant was, reading uncontextualized hadiths and not knowing the explanation or the secondary meaning of terms will lead a person into such a pit of confusion, they may lose their iman completely. And how many times have we entered into a complete abyss of bewilderment from self-studying a hadith that seemed to contradict everything we ever knew. It's very commonplace. And guess what. This is not just a modern phenomenon. It happened to early Muslims too. We're not alone in this: Ibn Wahb was of the fourth generation. He said, “Were it not for Malik and Layth, I would have been destroyed. I used to believe that everything narrated about the Prophet peace and blessings be upon him should be acted upon” (Dhahabi). Rather, any solitary hadith that has no context or explanation of its circumstances should be suspended and not acted upon, made law, or made an obligatory belief. This is why we need scholarship to corroborate evidence and qualify our application of hadith. That scholarship is called fiqh, and their called the Four Madhhabs. The above statement "Al-hadithu madalla illa lil fuqaha" is from Ibn 'Uyayna. "Hadith is a means of going astray, except for the scholars."