The Ruling on Narrating from the Trustworthy and Weak Successors

The questioner : What is the ruling on narrating from the trustworthy and weak successors?

The Shaykh : ... Anas ibn Malik, and sometimes he intends the successors of the successors, because he narrated from the successors and transmitted their reports, whereas he did not do so from the Companions. So by this consideration, he intends the successors of the successors.
And among the reasons is that he is a human being who errs and hits the mark. This is something I have undertaken to explain in the book I have been working on for the past few years, which is sometimes called "Taysir al-Intifa'" (Facilitating Benefit), or "Taysir Intifa' al-Khallan bi Thiqat Ibn Hibban" (Facilitating the Benefit of Intimate Friends with the Trustworthy Narrators of Ibn Hibban). In its introduction, attention is drawn to such contradictions. Some are explained by what you heard first, and some are explained by the ruling of humanity secondly. As for the contradiction in the narrator, he is listed in "The Trustworthy" and also in "The Weak." This is common, but that abundance is negated and diminishes relative to the large number of biographies in the book "The Trustworthy."