What is the difference between a Hadith whose narrators are "the narrators of the Sahih" and a Hadith that is "on the condition of Al-Bukhari"?
Their saying, "a hadith whose narrators are the narrators of the Sahih," means that the author of the Sahih narrated from the narrators of this hadith. As for their saying, "a hadith according to the conditions of Al-Bukhari," it means that the narrators in its chain of transmission are among those from whom Al-Bukhari narrated in his Sahih in the same context, i.e., in the same sequence found in Sahih Al-Bukhari, and free from defects. This means that none of the narrators of the hadith should be described as having committed tadlis (concealment) or as having suffered from ikhtilat (confusion) at the end of their lives, because Al-Bukhari did not narrate from mudallisin (those who commit tadlis) using the formula "an" (on the authority of) unless their direct hearing was confirmed, and he did not narrate from those who suffered from ikhtilat except what he heard from them before their confusion.
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