«والقسم الثاني من الرواة: هم المعروفون بالحفظ والعدالة دون الاجتهاد والفتوى»
The second category includes narrators known for accurate preservation and uprightness but not primarily for juristic ijtihad or issuing fatwas.
The text discusses Abu Hurayrah and Anas b. Malik in this context. This analytical division is not an accusation against their integrity. It addresses, within a specified juristic approach, how one weighs the legal comprehension of a report against competing analogy.
An upright transmitter may reliably preserve an account without being equally known for systematic legal interpretation. Nor is this division unanimously accepted across legal approaches.