What are the meanings of the following Hadith terms: Gharīb (solitary), Mursal (missing link), Mawqūf (stopped), Marfūʿ (elevated), Munkar (denounced), Ḥasan (good), Lā Baʾs bihi (there is no harm in it), Ḥasan Gharīb (good and solitary), Ṣaḥīḥ al-Isnād (authentic in chain), Munqaṭiʿ (interrupted), Ḥasan Ṣaḥīḥ (good and authentic), and Daʿīf (weak)? And are such Aḥādīth acted upon?
Previously defined were: mutawatir, ahad, mashhur, aziz, gharib, maqbul, , , mawdu’, marfu’, sanad, matn, da’if, mursal, mawquf, and maqtu’.
Al-Munkar (the Denounced ): A hadith in which a weak narrator is alone in its narration.
Hasan Gharib (Good and Strange): A ruling on a hadith that it is hasan (good), and it is described as gharib (strange), meaning a narrator was alone in its narration.
Al-Munqati’ (the Disconnected Hadith): A hadith from whose chain of narration one or more narrators are missing, provided they are not consecutive.
Al-Maqtu’ (the Severed Hadith): A narration attributed to someone other than a Companion, and stopped at them.
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