Then He, glorified be He, said concerning the truth:

“Rather, We hurl the truth against falsehood, and it crushes it; and behold, falsehood vanishes.”

Al-Khattābī said:

“If it is objected: ‘The proofs of prophethood and the miracles of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace—apart from the Quran—have reached us only through āhād reports (reports falling short of mass transmission). Such reports cannot establish proof for those living in later times, since errors may occur in them and defects such as falsehood and the like may affect them,’ the answer is:

“Although these reports, considered individually, lack the conditions of mass transmission, collectively they amount to mass transmission in meaning and fall within its scope as a class, since they corroborate one another and are alike in nature. All concern miraculous events that startle the mind and break the customary course of things.”

He said:

“An example of this is that one group reports that Hātim of Tayy gave a man a hundred