مُرْسَلٌ

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مُرْسَلٌ : see رَسُولٌ, second sentence.
2 Applied to a tradition (حَدِيثٌ), it means Of which the ascription is not traced up so as to reach to its author: [i.e.] الأَحَادِيثُ المُرْسَلَةُ means the traditions which one relates as on the authority of a تَابِعِىّ, by tracing up the ascription thereof uninterruptedly to him, when the تابعىّ says, “ The Apostle of God said, ” without mentioning a صَحَابِىّ who heard it from the Apostle of God: مَرَاسِيلُ is the [pl. or] quasi-pl. n. of مُرْسَلٌ thus used, [or rather used as a subst., or as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. is predominant,] like as مَنَاكِيرُ is of مُنْكَرٌ.
3 In lexicology, it means, like مُنْقَطِعٌ, That of which the series of transmitters is interrupted: as a word &c. handed down by IDrd as on the authority of AZ [with whom he was not contemporary, without his mentioning the intermediate transmitters]: and such is not admitted [as unquestionable]; because exactness is a condition of the admission of what is transmitted, and the exactness of him who is not mentioned is not known. (Mz 4th نوع.)
4 مَجَازٌ مُرْسَلٌ: see art. جوز.
5 [See also the next paragraph.]

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