The word · Hadith
المُتَّصِل
Muttasil
A chain in which every narrator genuinely took the report from the one named before him.
Also written · Mutasil · Muttasel · Mawsul · Mawsool · Mausul · Connected chain · Muttasil hadith · Ittisal · Muttasil al-sanad
The meaning
What Muttasil means in Islam
Also called mawsul. Connection is the first of the five conditions of soundness, and it is checked by comparing lifetimes, travels and known teachers. A chain can be perfectly connected and still weak, if one of the connected narrators is unreliable.
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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
- MursalA Tabi'i quotes the Prophet directly, leaving out the Companion who actually heard it.المُرْسَل
- SahihA hadith that meets all five conditions of authenticity, with nothing missing and no hidden flaw.الصَّحِيح
- An'anahA chain that says only from so and so, without stating that the narrator actually heard the report.العَنْعَنَة
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
- MusannafA collection arranged by legal topic that includes Companion and follower statements alongside hadith.المُصَنَّف
- Sahih al-BukhariThe collection of Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-Bukhari, held to be the soundest book after the Qur'an.صَحِيحُ البُخَارِيّ