Abstract:
التزم الامام مسلم فی صحیحه نفس شروط البخاری التی اتفق العلماء قدیما وحدیثا انها ادق ما یمکن ان یشترط فی الراوی والمروی من حیث التاکد من عدالة الرواة وضبطهم ـ واتصال السند وسلامته من الشذوذ والعلة. لکنه خالف استاذه فی اشتراط ان یثبت تاریخیا التقاء الراوی بشیخه الذی روی عنه حدیثه (بالعنعنة) حتی ینتفی التدلیس، وتحدیث الراوی عن شیخه الذی عاصره بما لم یسمعه منه. فمسلم لا یشترط لقاء الراوی لمن روی عنه (بالعنعنة) ویعتبر ان الروایة بالعنعنة ثابتة والحجة بها لازمة وهی محمولة علی السماع بین الراوی والمروی عنه بشرط ان یکونا ثقتین و معاصرین. ولذلک فهو ینقد من زعم من عصره خلاف ذلک، لانه رای من بعض علماء عصره من یزعم ان مثل هذا الخبر لا یعمل به حتی یثبت ان الراوی وشیخه قد التقیا فی عصرهما مرة او اکثر
Imam Muslim in his Sahih abided by the same conditions of Al-Bukhari's, upon which Muslim scholars agreed in ancient and recent times as they are the most accurate, required criteria with regard to the narrator and the transmitted in terms of ensuring the fairness and accuracy of the narrators – how connected the authentication of hadith (Prophetic Saying) is and how such authentication is safe from anomalies and aberration.
However, Imam Muslim contradicted his teacher in requiring that it is to be historically proven that the narrator has already met with the sheikh from whom he has transmitted hadiths (Prophetic Sayings) using al-'An' ana (transmitting from) so that fraud would be avoided, and how the narrator would provide updates about what he experienced from his sheikh and what he heard about him. Imam Muslim does not require that the Narrator should have met with the transmitter and considers that narration using al- 'An' ana (transmitted by) is constant and using it as a proof is mandatory as it is based on hearing between the narrator and the transmitter on the condition that they be trustworthy and contemporary.
Therefore, Imam Muslim criticized whoever, in his time, had claimed otherwise, because he saw that some scholars of his time had claimed that such news would not work out until it was proven that the narrator and his sheikh had already met in their time once or more.