الغفور
كلمة (غفور) في اللغة صيغة مبالغة على وزن (فَعول) نحو: شَكور، رؤوف،...
Criticism and acceptability
(الجَرْحُ والتَّعْدِيْل)
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التعريف
A discipline that focuses on studying narrators and their status as to their reliability and accuracy, drawing distinctions between those whose narrations are acceptable and those who are rejected. Criticism is to grade a narrator as unacceptable and acceptability means his accreditation. This discipline is also called: the investigation of people.