ما الفرق بين قول الرواة حدثنا وأخبرنا وأنبأنا؟

Ibn Daqiq al-Eid distinguished between the terms of performance (alfāẓ al-adāʾ) in hadith terminology. "Haddathanā" (he narrated to us) is used for what was heard directly from the shaykh by a group. "Haddathanī" (he narrated to me) is for what the narrator alone heard. As for "Akhbaranā" (he informed us), it is used for what the shaykh narrated, or what was read to him and he affirmed it. The term "al-ikhbār" (informing) is more general than "al-tahdīth" (narrating). "Anbaʾanā" (he notified us) was used by the early scholars to mean "Akhbaranā" or "Haddathanā," while later scholars used it for ijāzah (permission to narrate). As for ijāzah, some people use "Akhbaranā" or "Akhbaranā ijāzah" for it. However, Ibn Daqiq al-Eid held the view that "Akhbaranā" should not be used for ijāzah, due to the semantic distance between the term "ijāzah" and "ikhbār," as "ijāzah" means permission to narrate.