3 results for “hidden defects”

... ad-Daraqutni. A masterwork of hadith criticism identifying hidden defects (ilal) in narrations. Ad-Daraqutni, considered the greatest...

...rify the chain and text of a hadith, including checking for hidden defects.

The practice of a narrator concealing a link in the chain or the identity of a narrator, its types, and how scholars detect and handle it.