LessonsAbsolute and Relative Singularity: Fard, Gharib, and TafarrudQuiz

«وَالثَّانِي: الْفَرْدُ النِّسْبِيُّ»
The second category is relative singularity.

«لِكَوْنِ التَّفَرُّدِ فِيهِ حَصَلَ بِالنِّسْبَةِ إِلَى شَخْصٍ مُعَيَّنٍ»
Because the isolated transmission arises relative to a particular person.

A report may have several overall routes and be generally known, but one narrator alone may transmit it from a particular teacher. We must therefore ask “alone in relation to whom?”

Example: Three Successors transmit a report from one Companion, but only transmitter D takes it from one of those three Successors. D is singular relative to that teacher, even though other routes carry the report. This is an appropriate context for fard nisbi.

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Relative singularity and its point of reference

Absolute and Relative Singularity: Fard, Gharib, and Tafarrud

«وَالثَّانِي: الْفَرْدُ النِّسْبِيُّ»
The second category is relative singularity.

«لِكَوْنِ التَّفَرُّدِ فِيهِ حَصَلَ بِالنِّسْبَةِ إِلَى شَخْصٍ مُعَيَّنٍ»
Because the isolated transmission arises relative to a particular person.

A report may have several overall routes and be generally known, but one narrator alone may transmit it from a particular teacher. We must therefore ask “alone in relation to whom?”

Example: Three Successors transmit a report from one Companion, but only transmitter D takes it from one of those three Successors. D is singular relative to that teacher, even though other routes carry the report. This is an appropriate context for fard nisbi.