he did not state that he listened to it (لَم يُصَرِّح بِالسَّمَاع)

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التعريف :

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An expression describing a narrator and indicating that he narrated the hadith in a way that implies the probability of having listened to it but does not confirm it, such as saying ‘from so-and-so’ or ‘so-and-so said’.