LessonsRejected Reports, Recognizing Munkar, and Evaluating Narrator AdditionsQuiz

فَأَمَّا مَنْ تَرَاهُ يَعْمِدُ لِمِثْلِ الزُّهْرِيِّ فِي جَلَالَتِهِ وَكَثْرَةِ أَصْحَابِهِ الْحُفَّاظِ الْمُتْقِنِينَ لِحَدِيثِهِ وَحَدِيثِ غَيْرِهِ، أَوْ لِمِثْلِ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ
Translation: By contrast, consider someone reporting from an eminent teacher such as al-Zuhrī, with numerous precise pupils, or Hishām b. ʿUrwah.

Many of these teachers’ reports were well known and transmitted by skilled companions. There is therefore ample comparative evidence. A person claiming unusual material from such a source requires scrutiny in light of the established corpus and the person’s own participation in it.

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The difficult case of al-Zuhrī and Hishām b. ʿUrwah

Rejected Reports, Recognizing Munkar, and Evaluating Narrator Additions

فَأَمَّا مَنْ تَرَاهُ يَعْمِدُ لِمِثْلِ الزُّهْرِيِّ فِي جَلَالَتِهِ وَكَثْرَةِ أَصْحَابِهِ الْحُفَّاظِ الْمُتْقِنِينَ لِحَدِيثِهِ وَحَدِيثِ غَيْرِهِ، أَوْ لِمِثْلِ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ
Translation: By contrast, consider someone reporting from an eminent teacher such as al-Zuhrī, with numerous precise pupils, or Hishām b. ʿUrwah.

Many of these teachers’ reports were well known and transmitted by skilled companions. There is therefore ample comparative evidence. A person claiming unusual material from such a source requires scrutiny in light of the established corpus and the person’s own participation in it.