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Ruling on the Mursal KhafeeIt is fundamentally a weak narration due to an obscured missing link. Once theomission is clearly identified the narration is considered munqati‘.That concludes the six types of rejected narration due to breaks in the chain ofnarration. However, mu‘an‘an and mu’annan hadeeths could also be included.iii. Mu‘an‘an and Mu’annanThe Mu‘an‘an is a hadeeth in which the narrator relates it using the preposition “عن ‘ an” meaning “from” without specifying that he was directly informed. Thefollowing is an example of a mu‘an‘an narration:حدث َنا عث ْمان ُ بن أ َبِي شيبة َ حدث َنا معاوِية ُ بن هِشامٍ‏ حدث َنا سف ْيان ُ عن أ ُسامة َ بنِ‏ زيدٍ‏ عن عث ْمان َ بنِ‏عروة َ عن عروة َ عن عائِشة َ ق َال َت ق َال َ رسول ُ الل َّهِ‏ صل َّى الل َّه عل َيهِ‏ وسل َّم إِن َّ الل َّه ومل َائِك َته يصل ُّون َعل َى ميامِنِ‏ الصف ُوفِ‏‘Uthmaan ibn Abee Shaybah informed us that Mu‘aawiyah ibn Hishaam informedhim that Sufyaan informed him from Usaamah ibn Zayd from ‘Uthmaan ibn‘Urwah from ‘Urwah from ‘Aa’ishah who said that Allaah’s Messenger said,“Indeed, Allaah and His angels pray for the right hand sides of the lines (inSalaah).” 49The Ruling on Mu‘an‘an HadeethsAccording to the majority of hadeeth, Fiqh and Usool scholars, the Mu‘an‘an isconsidered muttasal (connected) if it fulfils the following two conditions:(1) That the narrator who relates the chain in the ‘an‘an form not be a mudallis.(2) That all the transmitters connected by ‘an (from) were contemporaries.(3) Imaam al-Bukhaaree, ‘Alee ibn al-Madeenee and other eminent scholarsadded the third condition that meetings between the narrator and his teacherbe conclusively established.Other scholars considered such narrations as broken until proven otherwise.49 Sunan Ibn-i-Majah, Kitaab: Iqaamatus salaah was sunnah feehaa, Baab: Fadl maymanatus saff;Sunan Abu Dawud, Kitaab: as-Salaah, Baab: Man yastahibbu an yusalli al-Imaam fis-saff