Ibn Nāṣir said, “I saw him but never took transmission from him, for he was suspected of fabrication. His Forty Ḥadith collection he stole from Zayd ibn Rifāʿah (1)—and Zayd himself had concocted it and was a liar. He blended words that the Prophet ﷺ had genuinely spoken with sentences taken from Luqmān, the sages, and others, then inflated the reports at length.

Al-Silafī said, “Ibn Wadaʿān produced his own book—so he claimed—on the basis of Zayd ibn Rifāʿah’s work after some of Zayd’s ḥadīths that came through his teachers reached him. He erred by failing to state this in the preface; and if anything else might conceivably be excused, this would be graver and more far-reaching, for it is unimaginable that a man of his standing, with so meagre a body of narration and such slight study, could have obtained every ḥadīth in the collection from the very transmitters he names.”

Al-Silafī also said, “We have been informed that he died in Muḥarram of the year 494 AH in Mosul.”

91 – al-Khushnamī, Abū ʿAlī Naṣr Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān
The shaykh, the scholar, the long-lived elder, the righteous and truthful Abū ʿAlī Naṣr Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān al-Khushnamī of Nīshāpūr.

He studied with Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī, Qāḍī Abū Bakr al-Ḥīrī, ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbdān, and Abū Saʿīd Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Ṣayrafī, and he became the musnid of his time. His audition from al-Sulamī was in person. Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī recorded his birth in Ramaḍān of the year 409 AH and said, “He is trustworthy and righteous; a great many people narrated from him,” and he died.