• Muʿḍal: Two or more narrators are omitted consecutively.
• Another chain identifies Muḥammad ibn ʿAjlān and his father as the omissions in Mālik's example.
• Munqaṭiʿ: One narrator, or several at separate places, is omitted.
• In the second example, Sharīk is omitted between al-Thawrī and Abū Isḥāq.
• Both incomplete forms are weak; consecutive omission makes muʿḍal more severely weak.
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Summary
• Muʿḍal: Two or more narrators are omitted consecutively.
• Another chain identifies Muḥammad ibn ʿAjlān and his father as the omissions in Mālik's example.
• Munqaṭiʿ: One narrator, or several at separate places, is omitted.
• In the second example, Sharīk is omitted between al-Thawrī and Abū Isḥāq.
• Both incomplete forms are weak; consecutive omission makes muʿḍal more severely weak.