What are the conditions of the nine imams in their books?
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The nine Imams stipulate five conditions for a to be judged authentic: a continuous chain of narration ( muttasil), the narrator's uprightness (adalah), the narrator's precision (dabt), absence of oddness (shudhudh), and absence of hidden defects (illah). Al-Bukhari and Muslim were distinguished by their stringent conditions for the highest degrees of authenticity. Al-Bukhari stipulated proof of a meeting between the narrator and the one he narrated from in the anana chain, while Muslim deemed proof of contemporaneousness sufficient.
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