TypeTransmission patternKnowledgeActionMutawatirMass transmission throughoutDefinitiveBindingMashhurLimited beginning, later acceptanceReassuringBindingAhadBelow those thresholdsNot necessarily definitiveBinding if conditions met
The relevant questions are not just how many people transmitted the report, but in which generations, through what connections, with what later acceptance, and in what relation to other legal evidence.
Answers to these questions can vary across narrations addressing the same issue.