Why is the distinction between *gharad* and *ʿarad* taught here?
Narrator Criticism: Corruption, Concealed Sources and Chronological Testing
- The words are always synonymous in hadith
- It accredits all of ʿAbd al-Quddūs’s teachers
- Textual criticism is limited to grammatical case endings
- Letter or vowel changes can distort the meaning of an attributed text