reliable, well-known (ثِقَةٌ مَشْهُوْر)
الحديث
التعريف :
- a description of a narrator implying that he is unblemished, very accurate and that he is well-known as a hadith scholar. It is a term close to the fourth degree of acceptability. The hadiths narrated by people of this degree are written down to serve as evidence.