What is complete mutaba'ah, and is there such a thing as incomplete mutaba'ah?
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The questioner : I read in the books of hadith terminology about complete mutaba'ah, and through my reading of complete mutaba'ah, I concluded that complete mutaba'ah occurs when another narrator joins this narrator in what he narrates from so-and-so.
The Shaykh : His shaykh.
The questioner : Yes, so I said perhaps this is complete mutaba'ah. Is this correct, O our Shaykh?
The Shaykh : No, complete mutaba'ah is in the same tier.
The questioner : The same tier. Okay, O our Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Complete mutaba'ah is an Al-Albani innovation.
The questioner : Okay, O our Shaykh, does this imply that there is another type of mutaba'ah other than the complete one? Does it have a name?
The Shaykh : In contrast to what I answered you, terminologically.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : The mutaba'ah is from below, not from the same tier; this is deficient and incomplete, so it is not complete. I mean, mutaba'ah in the chain is what is studied in the science of terminology, whereas complete mutaba'ah in the text is as I told you or hinted at, because we perhaps understand this from the scholars' takhrij (tracing of hadiths) and not from their explicit text in their terminology.
Famous: ... corroborating narrations.
The Shaykh: Yes.
Famous: In your saying it is an Al-Albani innovation!
The Shaykh : Yes, but the expression that it is incomplete with regard to the corroboration is this.
Another questioner : The corroboration, O our Shaykh, for the mutaba'ahs, their known expression is complete mutaba'ah and deficient mutaba'ah, but as for the corroborating narrations (shawahid), I have actually not seen anything but the expressions of our teacher that it is a complete corroboration and a deficient corroboration.
The Shaykh : This leads to something very important, because we find many scholars grading a corroborating narration as authentic for a complete text based on a deficient text, and here they fall into a very serious error.
The Shaykh : His shaykh.
The questioner : Yes, so I said perhaps this is complete mutaba'ah. Is this correct, O our Shaykh?
The Shaykh : No, complete mutaba'ah is in the same tier.
The questioner : The same tier. Okay, O our Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Complete mutaba'ah is an Al-Albani innovation.
The questioner : Okay, O our Shaykh, does this imply that there is another type of mutaba'ah other than the complete one? Does it have a name?
The Shaykh : In contrast to what I answered you, terminologically.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : The mutaba'ah is from below, not from the same tier; this is deficient and incomplete, so it is not complete. I mean, mutaba'ah in the chain is what is studied in the science of terminology, whereas complete mutaba'ah in the text is as I told you or hinted at, because we perhaps understand this from the scholars' takhrij (tracing of hadiths) and not from their explicit text in their terminology.
Famous: ... corroborating narrations.
The Shaykh: Yes.
Famous: In your saying it is an Al-Albani innovation!
The Shaykh : Yes, but the expression that it is incomplete with regard to the corroboration is this.
Another questioner : The corroboration, O our Shaykh, for the mutaba'ahs, their known expression is complete mutaba'ah and deficient mutaba'ah, but as for the corroborating narrations (shawahid), I have actually not seen anything but the expressions of our teacher that it is a complete corroboration and a deficient corroboration.
The Shaykh : This leads to something very important, because we find many scholars grading a corroborating narration as authentic for a complete text based on a deficient text, and here they fall into a very serious error.
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