What is the principal flaw in “every individual report of a trustworthy narrator is automatically sahih li-dhatihi”?
Sahih li-Dhatihi: Authenticity Conditions, Narrator Precision and Chain Rankings
- Thiqah means simply numerous narrations
- Hadith need no isnad
- Isolation automatically becomes tawatur
- Continuity, contradiction, hidden defects, and report-specific precision must still be assessed