Likewise, scholars such as al-Bayhaqī, Ibn al-Jawzī, and al-Maqdisī follow the same approach. Some authors present all of these reports together with their chains of transmission, analyze those isnāds and their various routes, and highlight their multiplicity without feeling obliged to restate what al-Bukhārī and Muslim have already narrated. Examples include Abū Zurʿa—the teacher of Muslim—Abū al-Shaykh, Abū Nuʿaym, and others.

Others cite the material with an attribution that traces it back to the original transmitter, even if they do not supply the complete chain, as al-Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ al-Sabtī does in his book al-Shifāʾ bi-Taʿrīf Ḥuqūq al-Muṣṭafā. Yet another group deems the reports established by their widespread fame and by additional proofs of authenticity, a method adopted by many dialecticians, such as al-Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Jabbār.