An advocate uniquely reports a hadith directly favoring that doctrine. What is the suitable critical response?

Innovation, Defective Retention, Ikhtilāṭ and Ḥasan li-Ghayrihi

• Declare it fabricated without investigation
• Discredit all of the narrator’s teachers
• Examine the content, narrator, and independent corroborating paths carefully
• Declare it sound because it seems useful