Reversal to test a narrator is permitted on condition that the original form is clarified before the gathering ends.
• The purpose is an examination.
• The correct form is disclosed before that gathering ends.
• Reversal for another purpose makes the report weak and rejected.
This concerns a scholarly examination of a narrator, not general permission to circulate altered Hadith wording.
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Maqlūb and an extra narrator in the chain
Reversal to test a narrator is permitted on condition that the original form is clarified before the gathering ends.
• The purpose is an examination.
• The correct form is disclosed before that gathering ends.
• Reversal for another purpose makes the report weak and rejected.
This concerns a scholarly examination of a narrator, not general permission to circulate altered Hadith wording.