A mawqūf report ends at a Companion in attribution, whether it concerns words, actions or approval. A maqṭūʿ report is attributed to a Successor or someone below that generation. Both terms principally answer whose statement or action is narrated.
Munqaṭiʿ, by contrast, concerns disconnection in the chain. Thus a Successor’s statement may be maqṭūʿ in attribution but connected in its chain. Equating maqṭūʿ with munqaṭiʿ confuses two different categories.
Similarly, a Companion statement may have a sound chain without becoming marfūʿ. First establish the endpoint of attribution; then evaluate continuity, uprightness and precision independently.