«عَلَى مَا سَنُقَسِّمُ إِلَيْهِ الْغَرِيبَ الْمُطْلَقَ، وَالْغَرِيبَ النِّسْبِيَّ»
Gharib transmission will later be divided into absolute and relative forms.
Absolute gharib principally concerns solitude at the report’s original point of transmission. Relative gharib concerns uniqueness relative to a specified transmitter, stage, region, or other defined comparison, even where the broader report may have additional routes.
For now the essential principle is one narrator being singular at a specified point. Not all forms of solitude are examined in the same way; the finer subdivisions and their examples belong to the later dedicated discussion.