Why is feasible meeting alone insufficient under the stricter condition?
Muʿanʿan Transmission: Possible Meeting, Evidence of Hearing, and Continuity
- Even proof of one meeting is insufficient; each particular text needs explicit hearing
- It regards contemporaneity and precision as wholly irrelevant
- It requires credible evidence of at least one actual meeting or hearing between the two narrators
- It presumes connection even where non-meeting has been established