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What is the meaning of Al-Mundhiri's statement in "At-Targhib wa At-Tarhib": "Narrated by Abu Ya'la with a chain of transmission meeting the conditions of the two Shaykhs," and does this indicate the soundness of the narrated hadith?

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The meaning of "on the condition of Bukhari and Muslim" is that the narrators in the chain of transmission of the hadith were narrated by the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) in their Sahih collections. Some may intend that the characteristics of this chain of transmission conform to the conditions set by the two Shaykhs. Al-Albani warned that this phrase does not necessarily imply the authenticity of the hadith, due to the possibility of a defect ('illah), oddness (shudhūdh), or discontinuation (inqiṭā').

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