Discussion of the chains of narration of the early and later scholars regarding the attributes of rising and descending?

The questioner : It requires detail. They are unable to know the later scholars' chains of narration through their knowledge of the early scholars, and the early scholars in relation to the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). How do you mean?

The Shaykh : Let us take, for example, Imam Ahmad, and take as his counterpart Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani, and those of his generation such as Abu al-Qasim al-Isfahani, the author of the book "Al-Targhib wa al-Tarhib," and Abu Nu'aym, for example, the author of the book "Al-Hilyah." If you go back to the Musnad of Ahmad, you will find that between him and the Messenger (peace be upon him) there are three or four people. In most cases, you will find biographies for all of them in the books of biographies. As for the Isfahanis we mentioned, often you will not find biographies for their teacher or their teacher's teacher. So you stop in the middle of the road and are unable to judge the chain of narration as authentic or weak. Indeed, in the three collections of al-Tabarani: "Al-Mu'jam al-Kabir, al-Mu'jam al-Awsat, and al-Mu'jam al-Saghir," for many of the teachers of these collections, even today, we hardly find biographies for them in the depths of the books available to us today. The higher you go in the authorship of a book, the easier it is for you to find the biographies, and the opposite is the opposite. Is that clear?