Narrator Count: Mashhūr, ʿAzīz, and Gharīb

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• A report has three or more narrators at every level, but does not reach mutawātir. What is it called?
• A report's minimum narrator count is exactly two: one level has two narrators, no level has fewer than two, and other levels may have more. Which category is this?
• If a report has only one narrator at one level while other levels have more, what is it called?
• Which category is illustrated by “الْإِيمَانُ بِضْعٌ وَسَبْعُونَ شُعْبَةً وَالْحَيَاءُ شُعْبَةٌ مِنَ الْإِيمَانِ”?
• In Hadith studies, gharīb technically means only that the report's message seems strange.
• For a report to be called gharīb, every narrator level must contain only one narrator.