He [al-Khaṭīb] also said, “I heard al-Ṣūrī say, ‘I have not seen in Baghdad anyone more accomplished than al-Nuʿaymī. He united expertise in hadith, theology, and literature, and he had studied some of the Shāfiʿī fiqh.’

He went on, “Al-Barqānī used to say, ‘He is complete in every respect, were it not for a trace of arrogance in him.’ (1)

Al-Khaṭīb related, ‘Al-Azhari told me that al-Nuʿaymī fabricated, at Ibn al-Muẓaffar’s expense, a hadith he attributed to Shuʿbah. When the hadith scholars caught on to the matter, al-Nuʿaymī left Baghdad and stayed away until Ibn al-Muẓaffar died and those who knew the story had also passed on. Only then did he return to Baghdad.’ (2)

Al-Nuʿaymī died in his eighties, in the year 423 AH.

Musallam b. ʿAllān wrote to us: “Abū al-Yaman al-Kindī informed us; Abū Manṣūr al-Qazzāz informed us; Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb informed us; ʿAlī b. Aḥmad al-Nuʿaymī informed me; Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. al-Fayḍ al-Iṣbahānī—reliable—narrated to us; ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Ghaḍāʾirī narrated to us; al-Ḥusayn b. al-Ḥasan al-Marwazī narrated to us; Bishr b. al-Sarī narrated to us, from Sufyān, from ʿUbayd Allāh, from al-Qāsim, from ʿĀʾishah who said:

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, ‘The circumambulation of the House and the running [between Ṣafā and Marwah] were only instituted to establish the remembrance of Allah.’ (3)

The correct version of the chain is: al-Thawrī, from ʿUbayd Allāh b. Abī Ziyād, from al-Qāsim.