Among such examples is that 'Abd Allah ibn Yazid al-Ansari, who had seen the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), narrated from Hudhayfah and from Abu Mas'ud al-Ansari, and from each of them

The reader: "Among such examples is that 'Abd Allah ibn Yazid al-Ansari, who had seen the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), narrated from Hudhayfah and from Abu Mas'ud al-Ansari, and from each of them a hadith which he traced back to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). In his narration from them, there is no mention of hearing it from them, nor have we preserved in any of the narrations that 'Abd Allah ibn Yazid ever heard a hadith directly from Hudhayfah and Abu Mas'ud, nor did we find a mention of his seeing them in a specific narration. We have not heard from any scholar of the past or from any we have encountered that he criticized these two reports narrated by 'Abd Allah ibn Yazid from Hudhayfah and Abu Mas'ud on the grounds of weakness in them. On the contrary, they and what is similar to them, in the view of the scholars of hadith we have met, are among the authentic and strong chains of narration. They consider the use of what is transmitted through them and the reliance on the Sunnahs and athar they bring. They are, in the opinion of the person whose view we have cited previously, weak and neglected until the narrator actually hears from the one from whom he narrated. If we were to enumerate the authentic reports among the scholars of knowledge, which this claimant considers weak, and count them, we would be unable to exhaustively mention and count them all.."

The Shaykh : This does not apply to the example he mentioned, because the example he mentioned is between whom? A Companion. And it is not possible to suspect a Companion of tadlis (concealment of a defect in a chain). Therefore, whoever saw the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and then narrated from Hudhayfah and Ibn Mas'ud, having seen the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), is a Companion. And it is very far-fetched to suspect a Companion of tadlis. Consequently, this example does not hold against us.