, Ibn al-Sibt, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ayyūb al-Ḥarbī, and others.

Ibn al-Najjār said: “He was weak in transmission, muddled, a liar; his reports are not admissible, and the leading scholars have spoken against him.”

Al-Samʿānī said: “Ibn Nāṣir used to speak ill of him (1).”

ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Anmāṭī said: “He was muddled.”

Ibn Nāṣir said: “He did not hear the whole of the book al-Jalīs from Abū ʿAlī al-Jāzirī.”

Al-Samʿānī said: “I mentioned this to Abū al-Qāsim al-Dimashqī, and he rejected it emphatically, saying, ‘His audition of the book was sound; I have seen his certificate of hearing for it affixed to the original manuscript,’ and he praised Abū al-ʿIzz.”

Al-Samʿānī then said: “I heard Ibn Nāṣir say: ‘I heard Ibrāhīm ibn Sulaymān say: I heard Abū al-ʿIzz ibn Kādash say, I fabricated a hadith and attributed it to the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—and I admit that.’”

ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī al-Qurashī said: “I heard Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan, the ḥāfiẓ, say: Ibn Kādash told me, ‘So-and-so forged a hadith in favour of ʿAlī, and I forged one in favour of Abū Bakr; by Allah, did I not do well?’”

I say: This shows his ignorance—he prides himself on lying against the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him.

Ibn al-Najjār said: “I saw a book of his entitled al-Intiṣār li-Ratm al-Qiḥāb; it contains poems in which he says, ‘The singer So-and-so recited to me,’ and, ‘Sutūt the singer recited to me …’”