Why preserve the alternative formulas in report 56?
Narrator Criticism: Al-Mughīrah b. Saʿīd, Shaqīq and Jābir al-Juʿfī
- Both forms assert the same direct hearing without doubt
- It announces two separate transmitters with parallel chains
- It records uncertainty in how the speech was reported
- It does not preserve a doubt in the upper transmitter’s formulation