he reported to us as was read to him (أَخْبَرَنَا قِرَاءَةً عَلَيْه)

الحديث

التعريف :

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This is a formula to narrate the hadiths the narrator and his colleagues learnt from their teacher through reading out to him, if the one who read out is someone other than the narrator. It may be used by a single narrator to give himself a higher status, not to indicate a group of students.