= 8/84–82; Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal, p. 292. (1) In his Mizan the author writes: “He is saduq (reliable); his reports are salih and hasan, though they fall short of the highest rank of sahih. Replying to Ibn al-Qattan, who called the man mustadʿaf (weak), he said: ‘He is neither mustadʿaf nor daʿif. Admittedly, he is not in the category of the trustworthy narrators such as al-Zuhri and those of his class.’” In al-Taqrib he is graded “thiqah (trustworthy), although he may err at times.” The introduction to al-Fath (p. 431) states: “Ahmad, Abu Hatim and al-ʿIjli deemed him trustworthy, whereas Ibn Maʿin, al-Nasaʾi and ʿUthman al-Darimi declared him weak because of his narration from ʿIkrimah concerning the beast.” Al-ʿIjli added: “They criticised him only for that hadith,” namely his report from ʿIkrimah, from Ibn ʿAbbas: “Whoever has intercourse with a beast, execute him and the beast.” Al-Hafiz observes: “Al-Bukhari did not transmit any of his material on the authority of ʿIkrimah; instead, he cited four of his hadith from Anas, one from Saʿid ibn Jubayr on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbas, and one from Saʿid al-Maqburi. The remaining compilers accepted his narrations.” (*) Principal sources: Tabaqat Khalifah, p. 215; Tarikh al-Bukhari 1/255; al-Tarikh al-Saghir 1/318–319; al-Jarh wa al-Taʿdil 8/113; Hilyat al-Awliyaʾ 2/345–357; Tahdhib al-Kamal, no. 1283; Mizan al-Iʿtidal 4/258; the author’s Tarikh al-Islam 5/159–161; al-Wafi bi-l-Wafayat 5/272; Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 9/499–500; Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal, p. 362; Shadharat al-Dhahab 1/161.