Ibn al-Dubaythi (1) said: “He had no real interest in transmitting hadith; he preferred other pursuits and loathed it (2), and his manner was not praiseworthy.

Ibn al-Najjar said: “His creed was unsound. He would preach while disparaging the Companions. He grew old and destitute, the people abandoned him, and he was peevish, difficult, and hostile toward the hadith scholars. He alone transmitted Jamiʿ al-Tirmidhi and Ibn Manda’s Maʿrifat al-Sahabah, and he would recite to students for a fee.

I (the author) say: Among those who narrated from him were Layth (3) ibn Nuqtah, Muhammad ibn al-Hani, Muhammad ibn Masʿud al-ʿAjami al-Mawsili, and Shaykh ʿAbd al-Samad ibn Abi al-Jayš.

Ibn Nuqtah (4) said: “He is notorious among the common people for assorted vices and flaws—drinking wine and Rafidite leanings. Later, while I was present, he was asked about someone who says, ‘The Qur’an is created’; he replied, ‘Such a person is a disbeliever.’ He was asked about one who reviles the Companions; he said, ‘A disbeliever.’ He was asked about someone who deems wine lawful—and it was said, ‘They mean you by this’—so he declared, ‘I am innocent of that,’ and wrote a statement of his innocence in his own hand.”

I say: Perhaps he repented and corrected his course.

Among those who heard extensively from him was Shaykh Jamal al-Din Yahya ibn al-Sayrafi.

He died in Ramadan of the year 618 AH.

76 – al-Tusi, Abu al-Hasan al-Muʾayyad ibn Muhammad ibn ʿAli *
The shaykh, the imam, Qur’an reciter, centenarian, hadith authority of Khurasan, Radi al-Din, Abu al-Hasan.