Fourth condition: the report must originate in sensory knowledge, such as directly hearing or seeing, rather than a conclusion reached by reasoning alone.
• Reporting something heard gives an account of that hearing.
• Many people reaching the same conclusion does not turn it into something heard or seen.
For a reported Prophetic saying, the original basis is hearing the saying, not merely thinking that it must have been said.
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Mutawātir Hadith: Many Narrators and Four Conditions
Fourth condition: the report must originate in sensory knowledge, such as directly hearing or seeing, rather than a conclusion reached by reasoning alone.
• Reporting something heard gives an account of that hearing.
• Many people reaching the same conclusion does not turn it into something heard or seen.
For a reported Prophetic saying, the original basis is hearing the saying, not merely thinking that it must have been said.