Narrator Criticism: Corruption, Concealed Sources and Chronological Testing

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• What is principally wrong with “Suwayd b. ʿAqalah” in ʿAbd al-Quddūs’s report?
• Why is the distinction between *gharad* and *ʿarad* taught here?
• Why preserve ʿAbd al-Quddūs’s erroneous attributed wording?
• Which interpretation of “the salty spring” is most precise?
• Why investigate Abān despite the phrase “he read it to me”?
• What does Abū ʿAwānah’s statement in report 78 directly establish?
• What evidentiary standing does the reported dream of Ḥamzah have?
• How do “about a thousand” and “five or six” relate in report 79?
• Under what principal condition did al-Fazārī permit recording from Baqiyyah?
• How should al-Fazārī’s statement about Ismāʿīl b. ʿAyyāsh be represented?
• What is the practical effect of regional qualification in evaluating Ismāʿīl?
• What problem arises from “using kunyahs for names and names for kunyahs”?
• Who was found behind “Abū Saʿīd al-Wuḥāẓī” in report 81?
• How does tadlīs al-shuyūkh differ from dropping an intermediary?
• What caution applies to “one of ʿAbd Allāh’s companions” in report 81?
• What exactly is reported in the statement “kadhdhāb” in report 82?
• Why is the attribution about Ibn Masʿūd at Ṣiffīn rejected?
• What kind of critical argument is Abū Nuʿaym’s rhetorical question?
• What is the cautious conclusion when one route implies a historical impossibility?
• What critical method is best illustrated by these reports collectively?