I say: This report is gharīb (singular), fard (isolated), and it is not reliably preserved.

Ibn ʿAdī said, “Whenever a trustworthy narrator relates from ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Jazarī, his hadiths are sound.”

Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah stated, “I kept the company of ʿAbd al-Karīm for a full year.”

I say: This attests to the breadth of his knowledge.

Al-Bukhārī said, “ʿAlī [ibn al-Madīnī] told me, on the authority of Ibn ʿUyaynah: ‘I have never seen anyone like him.’”

It is also said that he originally hailed from Istakhr.

Ibn ʿUyaynah added, “He is thiqah, reliable.”

ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī declared, “Firm, firm—trustworthy.”

Al-Nufaylī and others reported that he died in the year 127 AH.

Ibn Ḥibbān said, “I withhold judgment concerning him.”

As for:

19 – Abū Umayyah ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Abī al-Mukhāriq * (T, S, Q, M)

He is weak in ḥadīth, though he worked as a tutor.

He narrated from Anas, as well as from Mujāhid and Saʿīd ibn Jubayr.

Those who transmitted from him include Mālik, the two Sufyāns, and Ḥammād ibn Salamah.

He espoused irjāʾ (the Murjiʾ doctrine) while nevertheless displaying devotion and humility.

It is said that his father’s name was Qays.

Al-Nasāʾī and al-Dāraquṭnī ruled, “He is matrūk (abandoned).”

Aḥmad said, “I struck out his reports.”

Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr remarked, “Mālik was taken in by his weeping in the mosque and therefore narrated from him in the chapters on virtues.”

I say: He and al-Jazarī both transmitted from Ibn Jubayr, Mujāhid, and al-Ḥasan, and they died in the same year. Because Mālik, al-Thawrī, and Ibn Jurayj also narrated from the two men, some confusion may have entered certain chains of transmission.