Al-Nawawī notes a possible objection to treating all names in the earlier comparison as belonging to precisely the same generation: Manṣūr b. al-Muʿtamir is among the followers of the Tābiʿūn.
Thus chronological classification and relative hadith precision should not be collapsed into one label. The passage is about ranking transmission quality; exact generational status is a separate biographical question.
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Ranks of Transmitters: Precision, Consistency, and Fair Comparison
Al-Nawawī notes a possible objection to treating all names in the earlier comparison as belonging to precisely the same generation: Manṣūr b. al-Muʿtamir is among the followers of the Tābiʿūn.
Thus chronological classification and relative hadith precision should not be collapsed into one label. The passage is about ranking transmission quality; exact generational status is a separate biographical question.