The word · Hadith

المُتَابَعَة

Mutaba'ah

A second chain supporting the first through the same Companion, showing a narrator was not alone.

Also written · Mutabaah · Mutabaa · Mutaba'at · Mutabaat · Mutabi · Muttaba · Corroborating chain · Follow up narration · Mutabaah tammah

The meaning

What Mutaba'ah means in Islam

If a hadith comes only through one shaky narrator, and then a second route turns up where somebody else narrates it from the same teacher, the doubt about that man's memory eases. A full mutaba'ah agrees from the narrator himself; a partial one joins the chain further up. When the support comes through a different Companion instead, it is called a shahid.

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