From this analysis it becomes clear that an irregular (shādh) report is “what is narrated by an acceptable transmitter in contradiction to someone more authoritative than he,” and this is the definition that is relied upon in the technical terminology.
[Recognized (maʿrūf) and Repudiated (munkar)]
If the contradiction is accompanied by weakness (1), the stronger version is called the “recognized” (maʿrūf) report, and its opposite is termed the “repudiated” (munkar) report.
An illustration (2): Ibn Abī Ḥātim transmitted—through Hubayyib ibn Ḥabīb (3), the brother of Ḥamzah ibn Ḥabīb al-Zayyāt, the Qur’an reciter—from Abū Isḥāq, from al-ʿAyzar ibn Ḥurayth (4), from Ibn ʿAbbās, from the Prophet ﷺ: “Whoever establishes the prayer, pays the zakat, performs the pilgrimage, fasts, and hosts the guest shall enter Paradise.”
Abū Ḥātim said, “It is munkar, because other trustworthy narrators have related it from Abū Isḥāq as a mawqūf report, and that is the recognized version.” (5)