Reports of ʿAmr ibn ʿUbayd: Attribution, Conflicting Accounts and Evidence of Criticism

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• At which transmitter do the two upper chains in report 66 converge?
• What must be preserved when reading «qāla Abū Isḥāq ... wa-ḥaddathanā»?
• Whose criticism is conveyed by «yakdhibu fī al-ḥadīth» in report 66?
• What is the central point of ʿAwf’s objection in report 67?
• Which conclusion about report 67 is methodologically sound?
• What does ʿAwf mean by «yaḥūzahā ilā qawlihi al-khabīth»?
• Which inference from «whoever takes up arms against us is not of us» does not necessarily follow here?
• What change is initially reported about the student in report 68?
• How should «he brings us unusual matters» be assessed?
• What does «aw» preserve in «nafirru aw nafraqu»?
• What was Ayyūb’s particular counterevidence in report 69?
• What is the function of «yaʿnī Ḥammādan» after «Ibn Zayd»?
• Which conclusion is NOT directly established by report 69?
• What link underlies Ayyūb’s question in report 70?
• What kind of qualification is «qabla an yuḥditha» in report 71?
• What would be an unjustified conclusion from report 71?
• What should a critic first establish in a claimed hearing conflict?
• What is the sound approach to a historical critic’s use of «kadhaba»?
• What affirmative explanation of «fa-laysa minnā» does al-Nawawī report from the scholars in this context?
• What is the most balanced methodological conclusion from these six reports?