Suspended narrations (taʿlīqāt) in Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim:
A taʿlīq is the omission of one or more transmitters from the beginning of the chain—even, at times, right to the chain’s end. Such suspensions appear frequently in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī; by contrast, they are exceedingly rare in Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, occurring only fourteen times in total. Al-Nawawī enumerated them in the introduction to his commentary on Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, and he said—quoting Abū ʿAmr ibn