وَقَالَ جَلَّ ثَنَاؤُهُ: ﴿مِمَّنْ تَرْضَوْنَ مِنَ الشُّهَدَاءِ﴾، وَقَالَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ: ﴿وَأَشْهِدُوا ذَوَيْ عَدْلٍ مِنْكُمْ﴾
Translation: Allah also speaks of witnesses whom you approve and commands taking two just witnesses from among you.
The excerpts are from Qur’an 2:282 and 65:2. They establish integrity as relevant to legal testimony. Muslim argues that reliability also matters for accepting a report, without asserting that every legal rule governing testimony applies unchanged to hadith narration.