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Who are the problematic narrators in the Sahih Muslim reports on Jesus's return?

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More Muslim chains: a narrator with memory loss, a narrator who does not exist, a major mudallis

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The Sahih Muslim chains include a narrator who suffered memory loss, a narrator who cannot be identified and could not have met Abu Hurayra, a major mudallis whose reports some critics discarded as fabrications, and Abu al-Zubayr, whom Abu Hatim did not consider reliable.

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Mufti Abu Layth continues through the Sahih Muslim chains. One variant has a narrator who is generally reliable but whom al-Bukhari avoided as not scrupulous, and a report said to be heard from al-Layth which al-Bukhari says was wrongly attributed; al-Zuhri and Yunus ibn Yazid recur. Another chain contains Sa'id [?], of whom Ibn Sa'd and others say that years before his death he suffered severe memory loss and possibly dementia. He then describes what he calls a ghost: a narrator from Abu Hurayra who transmits no other hadith, about whom al-Bukhari says there are three such men and Ali ibn al-Madini two, about whom al-Dhahabi says nobody knows anything, whose home town is variously given as Basra, Makkah or Madinah, and who is described as the freed slave of a man who died in 146 AH, some ninety years after Abu Hurayra's death in 57 AH, so that he himself could never have met Abu Hurayra; a book listing all narrators named Ata' omits him. In the next chain is a narrator of whom Hanbal says they wrote nothing from him, a major mudallis who, Malik said, grabbed anything and passed it off as hadith, whom al-Dhahabi says must be taken with a kilo of salt, who transmitted from a book while pretending to have heard it, and some of whose reports Hanbal calls outright fabrications; after him comes Abu al-Zubayr, whom Abu Hatim did not consider reliable.

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Mufti Abu Layth says the Sahih Muslim chains for Jesus's return include a narrator who suffered memory loss, a narrator who cannot be identified and could not have met Abu Hurayra, a major mudallis whose reports some critics discarded as fabrications, and Abu al-Zubayr, whom Abu Hatim did not consider reliable.

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“years before his death he suffered huge memory loss and possibly dementia and this is why he becomes unreliable and he's in this chain”

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