What issue remains when a narrator says “a trustworthy person informed me” but leaves the person unnamed?
Narrator Anonymity: Wuḥdān, Mubham, Majhūl al-ʿAyn and Mastūr
- A break is invariably proven
- The individual remains unidentified and cannot be independently evaluated
- The matn is necessarily fabricated
- The teacher’s chronology is thereby established