ʿAbd al-ʿAziz ibn Muhammad al-Darawardi said: “Rabiʿah ibn (2) Abī ʿAbd al-Raḥmān related it (1) to me from Suhayl. (3) Later I met (4) Suhayl and asked him about the report, but he did not recall it. I therefore said, ‘Rabiʿah has conveyed from you such-and-such (5).’ From that time on Suhayl would say, ‘Rabiʿah has narrated to me—from myself—that I transmitted it to him from my father, the very same report (6).’”

Many other examples of this exist (7).

[The Musalsal]

(When the narrators in a particular isnad) all agree (on the wording of transmission), such as each one saying, “I heard so-and-so, who said: I heard so-and-so,” or, “So-and-so narrated to us, who said: So-and-so narrated to us,” and other similar formulas; (or when they agree on other verbal states), for instance, “I heard so-and-so say, ‘I testify by Allah that (8) so-and-so narrated to me…’ to the end (9);” or (when they concur on an action), as in his statement (10), “We entered upon so-and-so and he served us dates (11)… to the end,”—such a report is called musalsal (serially transmitted).