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