acceptable.
Al-Nasāʾī said, “He is not reliable.”
Al-Dāraquṭnī said, “Abandoned.”
Ibn ʿAdī said, “Most of his narrations are unsupported.”
Ibn Ḥibbān said, “He made many mistakes.”
He died in Ḥarrān in the year 166 AH.

Al-Nufaylī reported: Khulaid related to us—on the authority of Ibn Sīrīn—who said, “Knowledge has vanished, and what remains of it is but a remnant kept in bad vessels.”
ʿUmar ibn Ḥafṣ al-ʿAsqalanī said: Khulaid narrated to us from Qatādah regarding the verse, “He adds to the creation whatever He wills” (Fatir 35:1); he said, “It is the beauty found in the eyes.”
A report is also transmitted through ʿAlī ibn Maʿmar, from Khulaid ibn Daʿlaj, from Qatādah, from Anas—traced back to the Prophet—stating: “Whoever eats cucumber with meat will be protected from leprosy.”(1)
This is a fabrication.
Al-Nufaylī likewise recorded the date of Khulaid’s death, as cited earlier.(2)

72 – Mujjaʿah ibn al-Zubayr al-Baṣrī *

He was one of the scholars who acted upon their knowledge.
He narrated from al-Ḥasan, Ibn Sīrīn, Qatādah, Abū al-Zubayr, and others, and his reports were transmitted by Shuʿbah, al-Naḍr ibn Shumayl, ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn ʿAbd al-Wārith, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rushayd, and others.
Ḥāḍir ibn Muṭahhir al-Sadūsī said, “Abū ʿUbaydah Mujjaʿah ibn al-Zubayr al-Azdī narrated to us.”
Shuʿbah once mentioned him, praised him, and said, “A man who fasts constantly and stands in prayer by night.”
Ibn ʿAdī said: