#1: Study of Hadith: Kinds of Ahadith According to "the Continuity of their Sanad"

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Al - Muttasil

a hadith with a continuous chain of narrators (isnad) without any gaps or missing links. Each narrator heard the hadith directly from the one before them.

Al- Musnad

a hadith that has a fully connected chain of narrators that leads all the way back to the Prophet Muhammad (saw). It is also associated with books that collect these types of narrations.

Al-Mu’an’an

a hadith where the narrators use the term (" ‘an ” meaning "from") in the isnad, as in "So-and-so narrated from so-and-so." But, it is unclear whether they directly heard it from the person mentioned or not.

Al-Muannan

A hadith where the narrators use the term (“ an ” meaning "that"), as in "So-and-so said that the Prophet (saw) said..." Its continuity depends on whether the narrators are known to have met and heard directly.

Al-Mazid fi Muttasil al-Asanid

a hadith where additional narrators or details were inserted into a connected chain of narrators. Scholars investigate whether the addition is authentic or an error by comparing other chains.