If the narrator is older in age and an older generation,[1] or greater in ability or is greater than the one he is receiving the narration from then this is termed riwāyāt al-akābir `an al-aṣāghir.
From this comes the narrations of fathers from their sons, ṣaḥābah from tābi’īn and teachers from their students.
[1] Ṭabaqah
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If the names of the narrators are the same, however the names of the father are different, or the opposite,[1] then …
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According to Ibn Abd al-Barr,[1] munqaṭi’[2] is anything which is not connected i.e. any narration having a drop of narrators in the …
