As can be seen...

As can be seen, the legal condition of ‘adalah (justice) is not required for the narrators nor are they required to be thiqah when the conditions of tawatur are fulfilled. Rather, al­-­Ghazali states explicitly that in such cases knowledge is attained even if the narrators should be fasiq.

The author of Ma’alim states two conditions in order for a mutawatir report to produce knowledge in the listener: (1) The listener should not have previous knowledge of the matter, for it is not possible to know something that one already knows. (2) The listener should not be inhibited by doubt or imitation (taqlid) in his belief, for then the report will fail to make any impression upon him.

[^1]: Al-­Ghazali, al-­Mustasfa min `ilm al-usul, Dar Sadir, al-­Matba`at al-'Amiriyyah, Bulaq, Egypt, 1322 H. Previous…