Isnād is the chain by which a text reaches you.
الإسناد من الدين، ولولا الإسناد لقال من شاء ما شاء
“The isnād is part of the religion. Were it not for the isnād, whoever wished could say whatever he wished.”
ʿAbdullāh ibn al-Mubārak, cited by Muslim in the introduction to his Ṣaḥīḥ
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