«فالمتواتر: ما نقله جماعة عن جماعة لا يتصور توافقهم على الكذب لكثرتهم، واتصل بك هكذا»
Mutawatir is a report conveyed by numerous transmitters from numerous transmitters, making agreement upon a lie inconceivable, with the same pattern continuing to the recipient.
Three features must work together: multiplicity in the earliest generation, a comparable pattern in later generations, and uninterrupted transmission. Popularity only at the end of a chain cannot manufacture earlier mass transmission.
If ten persons all repeat information from one unverified person, the source has not become ten independent transmission lines. Tawatur concerns the complete pattern of transmission, not just the latest audience size.