LessonsRejected Reports and Categories of Interrupted ChainsQuiz

A mursal khafi occurs when a narrator cites a contemporary from whom he is not established to have met or heard, without disclosing an intermediary. Being alive at the same time is not proof of direct receipt.

«وَكَذَا الْمُرْسَلُ الْخَفِيُّ إِذَا صَدَرَ مِنْ مُعَاصِرٍ لَمْ يَلْقَ مَنْ حَدَّثَ عَنْهُ»
The hidden mursal occurs when a contemporary narrates from someone whom he did not meet.

For example, two scholars lived during the same decade, but reliable historical investigation establishes that they never met or did not directly transmit to one another. Their shared era alone does not render a purported direct chain connected.

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The defining feature of mursal khafi

Rejected Reports and Categories of Interrupted Chains

A mursal khafi occurs when a narrator cites a contemporary from whom he is not established to have met or heard, without disclosing an intermediary. Being alive at the same time is not proof of direct receipt.

«وَكَذَا الْمُرْسَلُ الْخَفِيُّ إِذَا صَدَرَ مِنْ مُعَاصِرٍ لَمْ يَلْقَ مَنْ حَدَّثَ عَنْهُ»
The hidden mursal occurs when a contemporary narrates from someone whom he did not meet.

For example, two scholars lived during the same decade, but reliable historical investigation establishes that they never met or did not directly transmit to one another. Their shared era alone does not render a purported direct chain connected.