Sometimes I abbreviate the lengthy ḥadīth because if I were to write it in full, some who hear it might not understand or grasp the point of jurisprudence within it. Therefore, I abbreviate it for this reason.

As for the mursal ḥadīths, scholars in the past used to accept them as evidence, such as Sufyān al-Thawrī, Mālik ibn Anas, and al-Awzāʿī. Until al-Shāfiʿī came and spoke about them, and he was followed in this by Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal and others (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhum)