«حكمه: هو بمنزلة الخبر المشهور، يفيد الطمأنينة دون اليقين»
Its standing is like a mashhur report: it produces assurance, but not certainty.
The previous level placed mashhur reports within a particular ranking of transmissions. Here the author uses that familiar scale to explain the strength of this later form of ijma‘.
Assurance (itmi’nan) signifies strong evidentiary confidence, while the certainty (yaqin) of the strongest category is not assigned to it. Do not transfer the explicit “definitive” ruling of the second form to this third form.