What is principally wrong with “Suwayd b. ʿAqalah” in ʿAbd al-Quddūs’s report?
Narrator Criticism: Corruption, Concealed Sources and Chronological Testing
- Corruption obscures the known narrator Suwayd b. Ghafalah
- It is a separately established alternate name of the known transmitter
- It is a matn variation with no bearing on transmitter identity
- It independently establishes the report of another person named Suwayd