Does the authenticity of hearing from a *mudallis* (one who conceals a defect in a chain) from a person imply the continuity of the chain?
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The questioner : In the hadith of Abdullah ibn Sarjis... Al-Shawkani (may Allah have mercy on him) reported that Qatadah’s hearing from Abdullah was authentic, and Ibn al-Madini authenticated the hearing, while Ibn Khuzaymah and Ibn Hibban authenticated the hadith. What is your response to this?
The Shaykh : The fact that a *mudallis* (one who conceals a defect in a chain) is reported to have heard from a person does not imply continuity, because the majority of scholars who are satisfied with contemporaneity require that the narrator not be described as a *mudallis*. If he is described as a *mudallis*, it is necessary for him to explicitly state that he heard the report directly; otherwise, the defect is the use of the particle *an* (from). Therefore, what you quoted does not mean that we say he did not hear it, but rather that he used *an*. If he had explicitly stated that he heard it directly, and it was said that he did not hear it, we would say that he explicitly stated he heard it directly, but the defect is that he used *an* and did not explicitly state that he heard it directly.
The Shaykh : The fact that a *mudallis* (one who conceals a defect in a chain) is reported to have heard from a person does not imply continuity, because the majority of scholars who are satisfied with contemporaneity require that the narrator not be described as a *mudallis*. If he is described as a *mudallis*, it is necessary for him to explicitly state that he heard the report directly; otherwise, the defect is the use of the particle *an* (from). Therefore, what you quoted does not mean that we say he did not hear it, but rather that he used *an*. If he had explicitly stated that he heard it directly, and it was said that he did not hear it, we would say that he explicitly stated he heard it directly, but the defect is that he used *an* and did not explicitly state that he heard it directly.