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حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ الْحُلْوَانِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ آدَمَ، حَدَّثَنَا مِسْعَرٌ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا جَابِرُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ قَبْلَ أَنْ يُحْدِثَ مَا أَحْدَثَ.
Translation: Through al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī, Yaḥyā b. Ādam and Misʿar: Jābir b. Yazīd narrated to us before he introduced the change that he later introduced.

«قَبْلَ أَنْ يُحْدِثَ مَا أَحْدَثَ» creates a chronological distinction. Reports from different periods of a transmitter’s life must be evaluated with the evidence relevant to each period. This wording alone does not certify every earlier transmission.

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

حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ الْحُلْوَانِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ آدَمَ، حَدَّثَنَا مِسْعَرٌ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا جَابِرُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ قَبْلَ أَنْ يُحْدِثَ مَا أَحْدَثَ.
Translation: Through al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī, Yaḥyā b. Ādam and Misʿar: Jābir b. Yazīd narrated to us before he introduced the change that he later introduced.

«قَبْلَ أَنْ يُحْدِثَ مَا أَحْدَثَ» creates a chronological distinction. Reports from different periods of a transmitter’s life must be evaluated with the evidence relevant to each period. This wording alone does not certify every earlier transmission.