Under al-Nawawī’s preferred khāʾ reading of “ukhfī,” what does Ibn ʿAbbās’s “I shall select for him” signify?

Avoiding Unreliable Transmitters: Critical Reception of Reports and Historical Claims

• Selecting useful material and withholding unnecessary contentious reports from the written compilation
• Calling an unsound judgment authentic for the student’s benefit
• Deliberately reversing the meaning of all requested information
• Certifying any attributed document without checking its source