LessonsHistorical Examples of Muʿanʿan Transmission and the Conclusion of Muslim’s IntroductionQuiz

وَلَمْ نَسْمَعْ عَنْ أَحَدٍ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ مِمَّنْ مَضَى، وَلَا مِمَّنْ أَدْرَكْنَا، أَنَّهُ طَعَنَ فِي هَذَيْنِ الْخَبَرَيْنِ اللَّذَيْنِ رَوَاهُمَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ يَزِيدَ عَنْ حُذَيْفَةَ وَأَبِي مَسْعُودٍ بِضَعْفٍ فِيهِمَا؛ بَلْ هُمَا وَمَا أَشْبَهَهُمَا عِنْدَ مَنْ لَاقَيْنَا مِنْ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ بِالْحَدِيثِ مِنْ صِحَاحِ الْأَسَانِيدِ وَقَوِيِّهَا، يَرَوْنَ اسْتِعْمَالَ مَا نُقِلَ بِهَا، وَالِاحْتِجَاجَ بِمَا أَتَتْ مِنْ سُنَنٍ وَآثَارٍ.
Translation: Neither earlier nor contemporary specialists known to Muslim criticized these two reports on that ground. The critics whom he met regarded these and comparable chains as sound and strong and used their transmitted reports as evidence.

This is an appeal to established critical practice, not an assertion that every report from such a pair is automatically authentic under all other criteria. The issue is the additional demand for documented contact.

Al-Nawawī also identifies the two actual hadith topics. ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yazīd’s report from Abū Masʿūd concerns the reward of spending on one’s family; his report from Ḥudhayfah concerns the Prophet’s disclosure of things to come. These identifications come from the commentary; Muslim’s argumentative sentence does not quote their complete matns. The examples matter because the critics did not reject these routes merely for lacking a separate documentary account of meeting.

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Historical Examples of Muʿanʿan Transmission and the Conclusion of Muslim’s Introduction

وَلَمْ نَسْمَعْ عَنْ أَحَدٍ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ مِمَّنْ مَضَى، وَلَا مِمَّنْ أَدْرَكْنَا، أَنَّهُ طَعَنَ فِي هَذَيْنِ الْخَبَرَيْنِ اللَّذَيْنِ رَوَاهُمَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ يَزِيدَ عَنْ حُذَيْفَةَ وَأَبِي مَسْعُودٍ بِضَعْفٍ فِيهِمَا؛ بَلْ هُمَا وَمَا أَشْبَهَهُمَا عِنْدَ مَنْ لَاقَيْنَا مِنْ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ بِالْحَدِيثِ مِنْ صِحَاحِ الْأَسَانِيدِ وَقَوِيِّهَا، يَرَوْنَ اسْتِعْمَالَ مَا نُقِلَ بِهَا، وَالِاحْتِجَاجَ بِمَا أَتَتْ مِنْ سُنَنٍ وَآثَارٍ.
Translation: Neither earlier nor contemporary specialists known to Muslim criticized these two reports on that ground. The critics whom he met regarded these and comparable chains as sound and strong and used their transmitted reports as evidence.

This is an appeal to established critical practice, not an assertion that every report from such a pair is automatically authentic under all other criteria. The issue is the additional demand for documented contact.

Al-Nawawī also identifies the two actual hadith topics. ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yazīd’s report from Abū Masʿūd concerns the reward of spending on one’s family; his report from Ḥudhayfah concerns the Prophet’s disclosure of things to come. These identifications come from the commentary; Muslim’s argumentative sentence does not quote their complete matns. The examples matter because the critics did not reject these routes merely for lacking a separate documentary account of meeting.