How should the devotional wording in Ibn al-Mubārak’s example be treated?
Isnād as Part of Religion: Transmitter Competence, Fitnah, and Connected Transmission
- Its devotional content automatically authenticates the Prophetic attribution
- Evidence about charity repairs the interrupted chain
- Its chain is criticized; independent proofs for the juristic matter remain separate
- Ibn al-Mubārak declared all good works for parents impermissible