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18302 عَنِ الثَّوْرِيِّ , عَنْ رَجُلٍ , عَنِ الْحَسَنِ , قَالَ : " أُتِيَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بِسَارِقٍ سَرَقَ طَعَامًا ، فَلَمْ يَقْطَعْهُ " ، @ 10 : 223 @ قَالَ سُفْيَانُ :
5 ṭuruq 12 narrators ◇ 4 mutābaʿāt 7 tafarrud
The ṭuruq, by Companion · الاعتبار

Ṭuruq are grouped by the source-given cluster key (SAUD/Jawāmiʿ al-Kalim), not by matn similarity — deterministic, no inference. The common link is the earliest narrator through whom the bundle first branches to several pupils; the platform shows the structure, the ʿilla judgement is the scholar's. · cluster 14116