What assessment remains after a narrator’s honesty is established?

Isnād as Part of Religion: Transmitter Competence, Fitnah, and Connected Transmission

• Consider the general reputation of his teachers without checking each link
• Accept all of his reports uniformly on the strength of integrity alone
• Rely on the legal sense of the text and postpone examination of the chain
• His precision, chain connectivity and the individual report’s agreement with evidence