When a narrator’s circumstances change, the critic asks when the report was heard, what evidence exists of precision and honesty at that time, and whether this particular transmission conflicts with another.
Report 71 supplies a temporal claim about Abū Mūsā’s hearing. It must be considered alongside the specific counterevidence in report 69 and the broader criticism in report 66, not used as an automatic substitute for either.
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Reports of ʿAmr ibn ʿUbayd: Attribution, Conflicting Accounts and Evidence of Criticism
When a narrator’s circumstances change, the critic asks when the report was heard, what evidence exists of precision and honesty at that time, and whether this particular transmission conflicts with another.
Report 71 supplies a temporal claim about Abū Mūsā’s hearing. It must be considered alongside the specific counterevidence in report 69 and the broader criticism in report 66, not used as an automatic substitute for either.