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(1) about the man who wielded the mattock.
By His—Exalted is He—aid and enabling grace, the first volume of Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ has now been completed. It will be followed by the second volume, which begins with the biography of ʿUbādah ibn al-Ṣāmit.
(1) The hadith is not authentic.
Rawh b. Aslam: ‘Affan said, “Rawh b. Aslam is a liar.” Ibn Maʿin countered, “He is not like that; he was not among those who fabricate.” Abu Hatim judged him “weak in hadith; scholars voice reservations about him.” Al-Bukhari remarked, “Criticism has been raised against him.” Al-Daraqutni classified him as “weak and abandoned.” Ibn al-Jarud added, “His narrations contain rejected oddities (munkar reports).”
بِصَاحِبِ المِسْحَاةِ (١) .
بِعَوْنِهِ -تَعَالَى- وَتَوْفِيْقِهِ نَجَزَ الجُزْءُ الأَوَّلُ مِنْ (سِيَرِ أَعْلاَمِ النُّبَلاَءِ) ، وَيلِيْه الجُزْءُ الثَّانِي، وَأَوَّلُهُ تَرْجَمَةُ: عُبَادَةُ بنُ الصَّامِتِ
(١) الحديث لا يصح.
روح بن أسلم: قال عفان: روح بن أسلم، كذاب، وقال ابن معين: ليس بذاك، لم يكن من أهل الكذب، وقال أبو حاتم: لين الحديث يتكلم فيه، وقال البخاري: يتكلمون فيه، وقال الدارقطني: ضعيف متروك، وقال ابن الجارود: عنده مناكير.