that so-and-so said (أَنَّ فُلَاناً قَالَ)
الحديث
التعريف :
A formula of the hadith narration that may imply having listened to it, but it does not clearly express that. It is referred to as anʾanah, and a hadith narrated in this way is called al-muʾanʾan or al-muʾannan.