The Meeting Condition in Muʿanʿan Hadith: Muslim’s Rejoinder and Route Comparison

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• Which additional condition does Muslim ask the opponent to justify?
• What methodological demand is conveyed by “fahallumma dalīlan”?
• What does irsāl mean in the opponent’s argument here?
• What is the consequence of finding even minimal hearing under the opponent’s test?
• If bare possibility of an omitted link is the disqualifier, what follows by Muslim’s reductio?
• How should Muslim’s Hishām-from-ʿUrwah illustration be understood?
• What is the appropriate first critical response when one route includes another intermediary?
• Which is the shorter route for ʿĀʾishah’s perfume report?
• Which intermediary appears between Hishām and ʿUrwah in the fuller perfume route?
• What distinguishes Mālik’s iʿtikāf route from the shorter Hishām route?
• Which two intermediaries appear after Abū Salamah in the longer fasting-kiss route?
• Which intermediary is in Ḥammād ibn Zayd’s route for Jābir’s report?
• What is Muslim’s principal inference from the four route comparisons?
• How should possibility be distinguished from a verified defect in differing chains?
• What is the point of reporting “descent” and “ascent” in these chains?
• What universal practice does Muslim deny attributing to the early critics?
• Why is explicit hearing especially investigated for a known mudallis?
• How do prior hearing and the authenticity of a particular report relate?
• How should al-Nawawī’s discussion of solitary reports be handled here?
• A trustworthy non-mudallis might have met his teacher, but no prior hearing is independently established. Which contrast accurately states Muslim’s and Nawawī’s arguments?