Abd Allah bin Abd ar-Rahman ad-D?rim? narrated to us, Zakariyy?? bin Ad? informed us, he said, Ab? Ish?q al-Fazar? said to me: ?Write from Baqiyyah what he transmits on authority of those who are well-known, and do not write from him what he transmits on authority of those who are not; do not write from Ism???l bin Ayy?sh what he transmits on authority of those who are well-known or otherwise ?.
Read More..Ish?q bin Ibr?h?m al-Hanthal? [bin R?hwayh] narrated to us, he said, I heard one of the companions of Abd Allah [bin al-Mub?rak] say, Ibn al-Mub?rak said: ?What an excellent man is Baqiyyah, if it were not for the fact that he would provide a nickname for [those who were better-known by] the birth name, and he would provide the birth name for [those who were better-known by] a nickname. For a long time he would narrated to us on authority of Ab? Sa??d al-Wuh?th?, then when we investigated [we were surprised that] he was Abd ul-Qudd?s ?.
Read More..Ahmad bin Y?suf al-Azd? narrated to me, he said, I heard Abd ar-Razz?q saying: ?I did not see Ibn al-Mub?rak express so plainly the charge of ?lying? except towards Abd ul-Qudd?s; for indeed I heard him saying to him ?[You are] a liar?.?
Read More..Abd Allah bin Abd ar-Rahman ad-D?rim? narrated to me, he said: ?I heard Ab? Nu?aym and he mentioned al-Mu?all? bin Urf?n, so [Ab? Nu?aym] said, [al-Mu?all?] said: ?Ab? W??il narrated to us, he said ?Ibn Mas??d attacked us on the day of Siff?n?. So Ab? Nu?aym said: ?Do you think he was raised after death? [Ibn Mas??d passed away in 32 or 33H, several years before the day in question]
Read More..Amr bin Al? and Hasan al-Hulw?n? narrated to me, both of them on authority of Aff?n bin Muslim, he said: ?We were near Ism???l bin Ulayyah, and a man narrated on authority of another man, so I said: ?Indeed this is not reliable (Thabt)?. So the man said: ?Are you backbiting him?? Ism???l said: ?He is not backbiting him; rather he is judging him unreliable?.
Read More..Ab? Ja?far ad-D?rim? narrated to us, Bishr bin Umar narrated to us, he said: ?I asked M?lik bin Anas about Muhammad bin Abd ar-Rahman who transmits on authority of Sa??d bin al-Musayyib, so he said: ?He is not trustworthy ?. I asked him about S?lih, a freed slave of at-Taw?amah, then he said: ?He is not trustworthy?. I asked him about Ab?l-Huwayrith , and he said: ?He is not trustworthy?. I asked him about Shu?bah on whose authority Ibn Ab? Dhi?b transmitted, and he said: ?He is not trustworthy?. I asked him about Har?m bin Uthm?n , and he said ?He is not trustworthy?. I asked M?lik about these five and he said: ?They are not trustworthy in terms of their ?ad?th?. I asked him about another man whose name I forget just now, and he said: ?Did you see him in my book?? I said: ?No?. [Then] he said: ?If he was trustworthy you would see him in my book?.
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