What is the authenticity of the statement of the Shaykh al-Islam in the introduction to the Tafsir
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The questioner : The Shaykh al-Islam says in the introduction to the Tafsir: "Mursal reports, if their chains multiply and they are free from collusion, whether intentional or coincidental without intent, are certainly authentic" Is this statement correct?
The Shaykh : If we look at the wording of his statement with precision and deep consideration, it is correct. So repeat it for me so that I can focus on that specific word.
The questioner : You mean collusion.
The Shaykh : In order to avoid collusion, some of the people of hadith mentioned that if we look at two mursal reports of a mursal hadith and find that each of the mursal narrators did not live in the same country as the other, and it is more likely—and the likelihood is sufficient in such matters—that one of them did not meet the other, or at least did not travel to the country where the other mursal narrator was, then by such tracking, and by what Imam al-Shafi'i also said, which seems to refer to what I mentioned, that if the teachers of each of the mursal narrators differ from the teachers of the other, this makes us confident that there is no collusion and no meeting in the narration from a specific person, so that the narration of the two sheikhs returns to the narration of a single teacher.
The Shaykh : If we look at the wording of his statement with precision and deep consideration, it is correct. So repeat it for me so that I can focus on that specific word.
The questioner : You mean collusion.
The Shaykh : In order to avoid collusion, some of the people of hadith mentioned that if we look at two mursal reports of a mursal hadith and find that each of the mursal narrators did not live in the same country as the other, and it is more likely—and the likelihood is sufficient in such matters—that one of them did not meet the other, or at least did not travel to the country where the other mursal narrator was, then by such tracking, and by what Imam al-Shafi'i also said, which seems to refer to what I mentioned, that if the teachers of each of the mursal narrators differ from the teachers of the other, this makes us confident that there is no collusion and no meeting in the narration from a specific person, so that the narration of the two sheikhs returns to the narration of a single teacher.