Isnat

"The sheer quantity of all different narrations found in all different books, really it's not that difficult to say the gist of the story could be deemed to be authentic," he says. "These same isnads that go back to catada and eben abas and ebenzad and what not, in atobody stesir, for example, these are the same isnads ... So if you want it to be that piky, then you have rejected basically 80 % of authobody."