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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو غَسَّانَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو الرَّازِيُّ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ جَرِيرًا يَقُولُ: لَقِيتُ جَابِرَ بْنَ يَزِيدَ الْجُعْفِيَّ، فَلَمْ أَكْتُبْ عَنْهُ، كَانَ يُؤْمِنُ بِالرَّجْعَةِ.
Translation: Abū Ghassān Muḥammad b. ʿAmr al-Rāzī heard Jarīr say: I met Jābir b. Yazīd al-Juʿfī but did not write from him; he believed in rajʿah.

This records Jarīr’s own decision not to record from a man he met. «لَقِيتُ» establishes meeting, whereas «فَلَمْ أَكْتُبْ» shows that meeting did not suffice for acceptance.

Here rajʿah refers to a particular belief in an individual’s return to this world, not the general resurrection on the Last Day.

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Jarīr’s refusal to record from Jābir

Narrator Criticism: Al-Mughīrah b. Saʿīd, Shaqīq and Jābir al-Juʿfī

حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو غَسَّانَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو الرَّازِيُّ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ جَرِيرًا يَقُولُ: لَقِيتُ جَابِرَ بْنَ يَزِيدَ الْجُعْفِيَّ، فَلَمْ أَكْتُبْ عَنْهُ، كَانَ يُؤْمِنُ بِالرَّجْعَةِ.
Translation: Abū Ghassān Muḥammad b. ʿAmr al-Rāzī heard Jarīr say: I met Jābir b. Yazīd al-Juʿfī but did not write from him; he believed in rajʿah.

This records Jarīr’s own decision not to record from a man he met. «لَقِيتُ» establishes meeting, whereas «فَلَمْ أَكْتُبْ» shows that meeting did not suffice for acceptance.

Here rajʿah refers to a particular belief in an individual’s return to this world, not the general resurrection on the Last Day.