Does it fall within the first category, or is it excluded from it?

The questioner : Does it fall within the first category, or is it excluded from it?

The Shaykh : We do not know it to be bad.

The questioner : A type of concealment (tadlis) is reported from him in the book "Al-Muwatta," where he mentions some of the sheikhs of ... in the exegesis?

The Shaykh : The hadith of leveling (taswiyyah) is conditional on that being established from him; otherwise, if one tightens a hadith, it is not said—for example—that he prayed, but rather that he narrated a hadith of ... . Therefore, leveling should be acknowledged by the one who conceals (al-mudallis); that is, he drops the sheikh of his sheikh in order to cover for his sheikh, and this has not been known about Imam Malik.

The questioner : Is it called proficiency (ijadah)?

The Shaykh : Oh?

The questioner : Proficiency (ijadah)?

The Shaykh : An addition?

The questioner : Proficiency, proficiency, ... the sheikh of his sheikh and he brings the Companion.

The Shaykh : I did not understand, he says what?

The questioner : Proficiency (ijadah).

The Shaykh : Proficiency (ijadah).

Another questioner : Or he means discovery (wajadah).

The questioner : No, he makes the chain of narration polished (mujawwad) as he said, he mentioned this.The Shaykh .

The Shaykh : It has no relation to recitation (tajwid), do you mean recitation (tajwid)? Of course, there is no mixing of the Qur'an in it.

The questioner : No, he means—for example—the weak one who ... weakens it with others and makes the entire chain of narration polished (mujawwad) with the men of the ... .

The Shaykh : The one who polishes (al-mujawwid) is the one who conceals (al-mudallis) through the concealment of leveling (tadlis al-taswiyyah); he displays the chain of narration as sound from the defect, so he polishes it in appearance, and the truth is known; this is a characteristic of the one who conceals (al-mudallis) through the concealment of leveling (tadlis al-taswiyyah).