What does “budd” indicate in “wajadnā buddan min iʿādatih”?
The Compilation Method: Narrator Tiers, Justified Repetition and Abridgement
- The status of the original report makes repetition obligatory in every case
- Having a way to dispense with repeating it
- An unavoidable requirement to cite each report with only one chain
- An obligation to reproduce every variant in full whenever wording differs