and to those who were absent and heard from the missionaries and individual princes and governors and they benefited by supposition from the words of individuals but it is obligatory for them to act on supposition due to necessity because the prophet may god bless him and grant him peace was unable to make each person hear by himself without an intermediary and he did not stipulate that every word in every incident be transmitted from him in succession due to its impossibility and knowledge is obtained by one of these two paths and it is absolutely impossible.
والى من غاب فسمع من المبلغين وآحاد الامراء والولاة فاستفادوا ظنا من قولة الآحاد ولكن وجب عليهم العمل بالظن للضرورة فان النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم عجز عن اسماع كل واحد بنفسه من غير واسطة ولم يشترط ان تتواتر عنه كل كلمة في كل واقعة لتعذره والعلم يحصل باحد هذين المسلكين وهو متعذر قطعا