What further evidence does Muslim invoke for the two chains through ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yazīd?
Historical Examples of Muʿanʿan Transmission and the Conclusion of Muslim’s Introduction
- No later hadith expert ever used them
- Every link is explicitly and multiply reported with ḥaddathanā
- Their wording is free of all route variation
- Critics known to Muslim regarded them as strong and used them as evidence