Mass transmission
“tawātur”
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
mass transmission · a sound report · broken transmissions · tawātur · التواتر · تواتر · تواترها
in the texts
Bayān zaghl al-ʻilm wa-al-ṭalab
Continuous transmission by numbers large enough to exclude error, treated by the annotator as a legal threshold that each region must meet in the readings on pain of collective sin.
and the readings are parts of the Qur'an, whose continuous mass transmission (*tawātur*) the community is obliged to maintain down the length of the centuries — indeed, the people of every region must have among them a number of men upholding them that reaches the threshold of mass transmission, failing which they all incur sin, as the exacting scholars have expressly laid down.
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
Report-transmission as a criterion of knowledge, invoked both to exclude sightings and to compel belief in the jinn.
Not one of the sects of the Muslims has differed about the existence of the jinn, and likewise the generality of the unbelievers, because their existence is borne by the reports of the prophets in a mass transmission (tawātur) known by compulsion, which ⟨.
And there is no way to the existence of a sound report of anyone's seeing a jinnī after the death of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace;
" And these matters cannot possibly be known at all except by a sound report from him, may God bless him and grant him peace, and there is no report from him, upon him be peace, other than what we have mentioned;