everything.

Someone asked Abū ʿAbd Allāh, “And what about Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd?”
He replied, “And what has Ibrāhīm really narrated from al-Zuhrī? Still, because his transmissions are so few, he makes fewer mistakes than Yūnus.”

He (the reporter) added, “I noticed that he was quite severe toward Yūnus.”

Al-Athram said: Abū ʿAbd Allāh rejected Yūnus, saying, “He would bring reports from Saʿīd that were not part of Saʿīd’s ḥadīth.” He considered Yūnus weak and said, “He did not understand ḥadīth.”

It appears that he used to write the opening of a notebook; then the text would be interrupted, so that the first part was from Saʿīd and some of it from al-Zuhrī, and it became confused for him.

Abū ʿAbd Allāh also said, “Yūnus relates ḥadīths that are merely al-Zuhrī’s opinions yet attributes them to Saʿīd. Yūnus makes many mistakes in what he transmits from al-Zuhrī, whereas ʿUqayl makes fewer.”

Abū Zurʿah al-Naṣrī reported: I heard Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal say, “In the ḥadīths of Yūnus ibn Yazīd there are objectionable reports from al-Zuhrī, such as the narration from Sālim, from his father, traced back to the Prophet: ‘On what the sky waters, a tithe is due.’ (1)”

Al-Maimūnī narrated from Aḥmad: “Yūnus transmitted objectionable ḥadīths.”

Al-Faḍl ibn Ziyād likewise narrated from Aḥmad: “Yūnus has more ḥadīths than ʿUqayl, and both of them are reliable.”

And he narrated: