What is the sound approach to a historical critic’s use of «kadhaba»?
Reports of ʿAmr ibn ʿUbayd: Attribution, Conflicting Accounts and Evidence of Criticism
- Classifying all of a narrator’s routes as fabricated from one label alone
- Ignoring all other particular evidence on finding one contradiction
- Examine speaker, instance and supporting context
- Reducing «kadhaba» invariably to unintentional error