The word · Hadith
المُعْضَل
Mu'dal
A chain missing two or more narrators in a row, a wider break than munqati'.
Also written · Mudal · Muadal · Mudhal · Muadhal · Mu'adal · Mudal hadith · Two narrators missing · Mu'dal hadeeth
The meaning
What Mu'dal means in Islam
The word suggests something troublesome and hard to solve. It is more serious than a single missing link, since a gap that size can hide an entire generation. When a later writer quotes the Prophet with no chain at all, the result is usually mu'dal in effect.
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Words that sit beside it
- Munqati'A chain with a break in it: a narrator missing somewhere in the middle.المُنْقَطِع
- Mu'allaqA chain with its beginning cut off, where the author omits the narrators nearest to himself.المُعَلَّق
- MursalA Tabi'i quotes the Prophet directly, leaving out the Companion who actually heard it.المُرْسَل
- Da'ifA hadith that fails one of the conditions of soundness, through a broken chain or a faulty narrator.الضَّعِيف
More from Hadith
- AdalahThe uprightness of a narrator: sane, adult, Muslim, not openly sinful, not known for shameful habits.العَدَالَة
- HadithA report of what the Prophet Muhammad said, did, or quietly approved, passed down through named narrators.الحَدِيث
- IsnadThe chain of narrators who carried a hadith, listed name by name back to its source.الإِسْنَاد
- MatnThe actual wording of a hadith, the part that comes after the chain of narrators.المَتْن
- MustadrakAl-Hakim's supplement, gathering hadiths he judged to meet the standards of al-Bukhari and Muslim.المُسْتَدْرَك
- Sahih al-BukhariThe collection of Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-Bukhari, held to be the soundest book after the Qur'an.صَحِيحُ البُخَارِيّ