Al-Ḥārith al-Aʿwar: Narrator Criticism, Variant Reports and Evidence

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• Who is the directly quoted critic in «وَكَانَ كَذَّابًا»?
• At which transmitter do the first two routes converge before reaching al-Shaʿbī?
• Who is meant by the pronoun in «وَهُوَ يَشْهَدُ»?
• What follows when two chains share Mughīrah and al-Shaʿbī?
• Which distinction is required in the exchange attributed to ʿAlqamah and al-Ḥārith?
• What is the proper conclusion from the interpretation quoted from Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ?
• What is the primary interpretive difficulty in “The Qurʾān is easy, waḥy is harder”?
• What does «أَوْ قَالَ» indicate in report 47?
• Which transmitter is common to the chains in reports 46 and 47?
• If the sequence of years differs between reported versions, what is the first sound step?
• What is the grammatical and evidentiary force of «اتُّهِمَ»?
• What is the grammatical relationship in «عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ وَالْمُغِيرَةِ»?
• Which distinction between “kadhdhāban” and “uttuhima” is sound?
• What does the Murrah account actually state?
• What evidentiary limit follows from «مِنَ الْحَارِثِ شَيْئًا»?
• How should a scholar treat a strong historical reaction when considering a legal conclusion?
• Which method best integrates the six reports without distorting them?
• What can be inferred from «ʿan Ibrāhīm anna al-Ḥārith qāla»?
• Why is al-Nawawī’s identification of the nisbah “al-Hamdānī” relevant?
• Which statement would misrepresent the evidence in this dossier?