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وَأَسْنَدَ قَيْسُ بْنُ أَبِي حَازِمٍ، وَقَدْ أَدْرَكَ زَمَنَ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، عَنْ أَبِي مَسْعُودٍ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ثَلَاثَةَ أَخْبَارٍ.
Translation: Qays ibn Abī Ḥāzim, who lived in the Prophet’s era, transmits three Prophetic reports through Abū Masʿūd al-Anṣārī.

The number of reports is not itself proof of continuity; rather, this is another familiar early route that critics did not reject merely for lack of a separate encounter certificate.

Al-Nawawī identifies Qays’s three reports by subject: the statement «إِنَّ الْإِيمَانَ هَاهُنَا», the teaching that eclipses do not happen because someone dies, and a complaint about a prayer leader prolonging the prayer. These concrete cases show that Muslim is invoking distinct recognized transmissions, not merely repeating a hypothetical chain.

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Qays ibn Abī Ḥāzim’s Three Reports

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

وَأَسْنَدَ قَيْسُ بْنُ أَبِي حَازِمٍ، وَقَدْ أَدْرَكَ زَمَنَ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، عَنْ أَبِي مَسْعُودٍ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ثَلَاثَةَ أَخْبَارٍ.
Translation: Qays ibn Abī Ḥāzim, who lived in the Prophet’s era, transmits three Prophetic reports through Abū Masʿūd al-Anṣārī.

The number of reports is not itself proof of continuity; rather, this is another familiar early route that critics did not reject merely for lack of a separate encounter certificate.

Al-Nawawī identifies Qays’s three reports by subject: the statement «إِنَّ الْإِيمَانَ هَاهُنَا», the teaching that eclipses do not happen because someone dies, and a complaint about a prayer leader prolonging the prayer. These concrete cases show that Muslim is invoking distinct recognized transmissions, not merely repeating a hypothetical chain.