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فَأَمَّا مَا وَجَدْنَا بُدًّا مِنْ إِعَادَتِهِ بِجُمْلَتِهِ مِنْ غَيْرِ حَاجَةٍ مِنَّا إِلَيْهِ، فَلَا نَتَوَلَّى فِعْلَهُ إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى.
Where we can dispense with repeating a report in its entirety and have no need for such repetition, we shall not undertake it, Allah willing.

Here *budd* indicates a way of dispensing with the repetition: where there is no scholarly need to present the entire report again, Imam Muslim will not do so. Reading the statement as “every repetition is unavoidable” reverses its meaning.

The rule is now complete: a material addition or a particular isnād question may justify repetition or legitimate excerpting; otherwise repetition is avoided.

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The Compilation Method: Narrator Tiers, Justified Repetition and Abridgement

فَأَمَّا مَا وَجَدْنَا بُدًّا مِنْ إِعَادَتِهِ بِجُمْلَتِهِ مِنْ غَيْرِ حَاجَةٍ مِنَّا إِلَيْهِ، فَلَا نَتَوَلَّى فِعْلَهُ إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى.
Where we can dispense with repeating a report in its entirety and have no need for such repetition, we shall not undertake it, Allah willing.

Here *budd* indicates a way of dispensing with the repetition: where there is no scholarly need to present the entire report again, Imam Muslim will not do so. Reading the statement as “every repetition is unavoidable” reverses its meaning.

The rule is now complete: a material addition or a particular isnād question may justify repetition or legitimate excerpting; otherwise repetition is avoided.