What evidentiary standing does the reported dream of Ḥamzah have?
Narrator Criticism: Corruption, Concealed Sources and Chronological Testing
- It is an additional decisive marfūʿ chain for all the reports
- It is independent decisive criticism of every other Abān route
- A narrated dream, not independent decisive hadith authentication
- To treat the dream as a cautionary indication that makes separate isnād investigation unnecessary