The addition must have arisen from someone’s mistake, and investigation must establish that mistake.
• Noticing an extra name in one chain is insufficient.
• It must also be established that the name was mistakenly added.
• With both explicit hearing and an established mistake, the addition is rejected and the report is treated as weak.
An additional narrator is therefore not automatically an error.
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Maqlūb and an extra narrator in the chain
The addition must have arisen from someone’s mistake, and investigation must establish that mistake.
• Noticing an extra name in one chain is insufficient.
• It must also be established that the name was mistakenly added.
• With both explicit hearing and an established mistake, the addition is rejected and the report is treated as weak.
An additional narrator is therefore not automatically an error.