Some transmitters have both favorable and unfavorable evaluations, while the reason for disapproval remains unclear. One rigorous response is tawaqquf—withholding a final judgment until further evidence is available—rather than automatically branding the narrator entirely rejected or wholly reliable.
Suspension is appropriate where the basis of both assessments, the critics’ differences, or the evidence concerning a particular chain remains unresolved. Study of additional routes may settle the grade of individual reports even while a broader biographical dispute persists.
Distinction: “the judgment is currently unresolved” is not identical to “the report is necessarily rejected.” Nor does caution about a narrator always determine every associated report in the same way.