الحفي
كلمةُ (الحَفِيِّ) في اللغة هي صفةٌ من الحفاوة، وهي الاهتمامُ...
Used by al-Bukhari for reconfirmation
(اسْتَشْهَدَ بِهِ البُخَارِي)
من موسوعة المصطلحات الإسلامية
التعريف
A description of a narrator indicating that he does not meet the conditions set by al-Bukhari, and that al-Bukhari did not relate his hadiths as the main ones in their relevant chapters, but related them by way of reconfirmation and endorsement to re-emphasise the main hadith in the chapter, or for some other useful purpose.