LessonsShādhdh: Opposing a stronger reportQuiz

• This report transmits a command to lie down.
• Several other reliable narrators transmitted the Prophet's ﷺ action: he would lie on his right side.

The stated reason for treating this example as shādhdh is that one reliable narrator transmitted it as a command rather than an action, contrary to the other reliable narrators.

Finding a saying and an action does not always establish opposition; this is the scholarly explanation of this particular example.

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Where is the opposition in this example?

Shādhdh: Opposing a stronger report

• This report transmits a command to lie down.
• Several other reliable narrators transmitted the Prophet's ﷺ action: he would lie on his right side.

The stated reason for treating this example as shādhdh is that one reliable narrator transmitted it as a command rather than an action, contrary to the other reliable narrators.

Finding a saying and an action does not always establish opposition; this is the scholarly explanation of this particular example.