Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak was a central figure among the generation after the Companions, combining hadith travel, fiqh, and asceticism. His statement that isnad is part of religion — and that without it people would say whatever they wish — captures why chains matter.
He illustrates how early Muslims already treated attribution as sacred.
Hadith and isnad
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