BENEFIT 226: Excercising Jarh wa ta'deel requires a great deal of Wara'

Ibnul Jawzi rahimahullah wrote: ومن تلبيس إبليس على أصحاب الحديث قدح بعضهم في بعض طلبا للتشفي ويخرجون ذلك مخرج الجرح والتعديل الذي استعمله قدماء هذه الأمة للذب عن الشرع والله أعلم بالمقاصد. "One of the deceptions of Iblees that affects the scholars of Hadith is that some of them criticise each other out of a desire for self-satisfaction, while they present this criticism under the guise of the practice of 'Jarh wa ta'dil' (the assessment of reliability and integrity of narrators), which was originally employed by the early generations of this Ummah to protect the integrity of the religion. However, Allāh alone knows their true intentions." [Talbees Iblees] If this affects "scholars", what of those who have yet to smell the fragrance of knowledge?! @almanhajussalafi