His assertion that such reports are scarce is untenable, and so too (1) is the contention of others that they are altogether nonexistent (2); for both views arise from limited familiarity (3) with the multitude of transmission routes, the circumstances of the narrators, and the traits that, by common custom, make it impossible for them to collude in a lie (4) or agree upon it by mere coincidence.

[Mutawātir reports are plentiful in the hadith corpus]
One of the finest ways (5) to demonstrate that mutawātir material exists in great abundance within the hadith literature is this: when the well-known books that circulate widely among scholars East and West—works whose attribution to their authors is, for them, beyond doubt (7)—unite in recording a given hadith, and its chains are so numerous that normal convention rules out any concerted fabrication on their part, while all the remaining conditions are likewise met, such concurrence yields certain, demonstrative knowledge of the hadith’s authenticity for whoever studies it. Examples of this are numerous (8) throughout the celebrated collections.

[The mashhūr and the difference between it and the mustafīḍ]
The second (9) category—indeed the first of the solitary reports (10)—consists of those that possess several transmission routes