ʿAbdullāh ibn Ṣāliḥ reported: Muʿāwiyah ibn Ṣāliḥ narrated to us, from Sulaymān Abū al-Rabīʿ, from al-Qāsim, who said:
“I saw the people gathered around an elderly man, so I asked, ‘Who is this?’ They replied, ‘Sahl ibn al-Ḥanẓaliyyah.’”
Duhaym said: “Al-Qāsim was the client of Jawayriyah bint Abī Sufyān, and she inherited him.”
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd ibn Jābir said: “I have never seen anyone better than al-Qāsim Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. We were in Constantinople, and everyone was issued two loaves of bread a day; he would give one loaf away in charity, then fast and break his fast on the other.”
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said: “Al-Qāsim’s narrations contain objectionable reports that differ from what the reliable transmitters relate.”
Ibn Saʿd said: “Some scholars regard him as weak.”
Aḥmad also said: “Al-Qāsim’s report from Abū Umāmah—‘Tanning is a purifier’—is anomalous.”⦗1⦘
He added: “ʿAlī ibn Yazīd transmits astonishing things from him, and I believe they come only from al-Qāsim himself.”
Ibn Ḥibbān said: “He reports problem-ridden chains from the Companions, and he claimed to have met forty veterans of Badr.”
A group transmitted from Ibn Maʿīn that he said: “Reliable.”
Abū Isḥāq al-Jūzajānī said: “He was upright and virtuous; he met forty of the Emigrants and the Helpers.”
Al-Tirmidhī said: “Reliable.”
Ibn Saʿd and others stated: “He died in 112 AH.”
73 – al-Qāsim ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, son of the Messenger of Allah’s Companion ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd al-Hudhalī * (4)