A narrator developed ikhtilāṭ after 200 AH, and a pupil’s sound audition in 195 AH is verified. What follows?

Innovation, Defective Retention, Ikhtilāṭ and Ḥasan li-Ghayrihi

• The early audition is not automatically rejected due to later deterioration
• It becomes fabricated for that reason alone
• It necessarily becomes mutawātir
• It must be treated as a later audition