Does a fabricated or gravely unreliable report necessarily become ḥasan li-ghayrihi by adding two unreliable routes?
Innovation, Defective Retention, Ikhtilāṭ and Ḥasan li-Ghayrihi
- No; severe defects and dependent weak reports are not cured merely by counting paths
- Yes; any third route makes a report ṣaḥīḥ
- Yes; only the number of routes matters
- Yes; analysis of a fabricated chain is prohibited