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وَمَا عَلِمْنَا أَحَدًا مِنْ أَئِمَّةِ السَّلَفِ مِمَّنْ يَسْتَعْمِلُ الْأَخْبَارَ وَيَتَفَقَّدُ صِحَّةَ الْأَسَانِيدِ وَسَقَمَهَا، مِثْلَ أَيُّوبَ السَّخْتِيَانِيِّ وَابْنِ عَوْنٍ وَمَالِكِ بْنِ أَنَسٍ وَشُعْبَةَ بْنِ الْحَجَّاجِ وَيَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ الْقَطَّانِ وَعَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ مَهْدِيٍّ وَمَنْ بَعْدَهُمْ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْحَدِيثِ، فَتَّشُوا عَنْ مَوْضِعِ السَّمَاعِ فِي الْأَسَانِيدِ كَمَا ادَّعَاهُ الَّذِي وَصَفْنَا قَوْلَهُ مِنْ قَبْلُ.
Translation: Muslim says he does not know these leading earlier critics—Ayyūb, Ibn ʿAwn, Mālik, Shuʿbah, Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī and their successors—to have applied the opponent’s general per-link hearing search.

This is not a denial that critics investigated chains. It targets the claimed universal requirement to verify an actual hearing occasion for every non-mudallis ʿan-link.

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

وَمَا عَلِمْنَا أَحَدًا مِنْ أَئِمَّةِ السَّلَفِ مِمَّنْ يَسْتَعْمِلُ الْأَخْبَارَ وَيَتَفَقَّدُ صِحَّةَ الْأَسَانِيدِ وَسَقَمَهَا، مِثْلَ أَيُّوبَ السَّخْتِيَانِيِّ وَابْنِ عَوْنٍ وَمَالِكِ بْنِ أَنَسٍ وَشُعْبَةَ بْنِ الْحَجَّاجِ وَيَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ الْقَطَّانِ وَعَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ مَهْدِيٍّ وَمَنْ بَعْدَهُمْ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْحَدِيثِ، فَتَّشُوا عَنْ مَوْضِعِ السَّمَاعِ فِي الْأَسَانِيدِ كَمَا ادَّعَاهُ الَّذِي وَصَفْنَا قَوْلَهُ مِنْ قَبْلُ.
Translation: Muslim says he does not know these leading earlier critics—Ayyūb, Ibn ʿAwn, Mālik, Shuʿbah, Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī and their successors—to have applied the opponent’s general per-link hearing search.

This is not a denial that critics investigated chains. It targets the claimed universal requirement to verify an actual hearing occasion for every non-mudallis ʿan-link.