he reported to us (أَخْبَرَنَا)

الحديث

التعريف :

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This is a verbal formula to narrate the hadiths the narrator learnt with his colleagues by the method of reading out to their teacher. It may be used by a single narrator to give himself a higher status, not to indicate a group of students. Scholars of hadith abbreviate it as anā and aranā.