**Not trustworthy in his hadith:** a judgment on a narrator’s transmitted reliability.
**Not a hadith specialist:** a comment on technical expertise.
**Unknown chain:** a defect of identification or connectivity affecting a particular transmission.
The critic must identify whether the judgment concerns a person, a particular period in his career, or an individual route; otherwise a valid criticism may be overextended.
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The Necessity and Boundaries of Narrator Criticism
**Not trustworthy in his hadith:** a judgment on a narrator’s transmitted reliability.
**Not a hadith specialist:** a comment on technical expertise.
**Unknown chain:** a defect of identification or connectivity affecting a particular transmission.
The critic must identify whether the judgment concerns a person, a particular period in his career, or an individual route; otherwise a valid criticism may be overextended.