Mutawaatir

The first category is mutawatir (متواتر, Mutawātir; meaning: successive) narration.

The scholars have mentioned four conditions for a hadith to be regarded as mutawaatir:

1 – It should have been narrated by a large number

2 – The number should be so large that it is impossible that they could have agreed upon a lie.

3 – There should be a large number of narrators at every stage of the chain of narration (isnaad), so it should have been narrated by a large number from a large number, all the way back to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him).

4 – It should be based on what they saw or heard, so they should say, “We heard” or “We saw”, because if it is not like that it is possible for error to creep in, so it is not mutawaatir.