Who is the speaker of “only trustworthy narrators should transmit from the Messenger ﷺ”?
Isnād as Part of Religion: Transmitter Competence, Fitnah, and Connected Transmission
- Saʿd b. Ibrāhīm
- Imam Muslim’s own independent statement
- A direct Prophetic hadith
- The earlier statement of Ibn Sīrīn