putting on the brusque attitude typical of the people of Syria. He asked, “Where are you from?”
I replied, “From Damascus.”
He said, “What has brought you here?”
I answered, “I have come to hear reports from you and from others like you.”
He retorted, “So you have come all the way to Kufa to listen? By Allah, you will meet in it nothing but liars until you leave (1).”

ʿAmr ibn Abī Salamah said: I heard Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz say, “Al-Awzāʿī came to me and asked, ‘Who narrated such-and-such to you?’ I replied, ‘The man both you and I regard as trustworthy—Ṣadaqah ibn ʿAbd Allah.’ ”

Al-ʿUqaylī said: ʿAbd Allah ibn Aḥmad narrated to us; I heard my father say, “Ṣadaqah al-Samīn was a Syrian. Al-Walīd ibn Muslim narrates from him. He is nothing; his hadith are weak, his narrations are objectionable. His reports are worthless. Whatever of his narrations is a mursal report from Makḥūl is the easiest to accept, yet he is exceedingly weak.”

ʿAbbās related from Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn: “Weak.”

Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Sarī said: “Weak.”

I (the author) say: He is of those whose reports may be mentioned, but no legal proof is to be based on them.

Abū Ḥātim ibn Ḥibbān severely criticized him, saying, “He was one of those who transmit fabricated reports from reliable narrators; one should not occupy himself with his narrations except out of amazement.”

Al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān narrated to us; Ibn Abī al-Sarī narrated to us; ʿAmr ibn Abī Salamah, from Ṣadaqah ibn ʿAbd Allah, from Mūsā ibn Yasār, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, from the Prophet ﷺ, who said: “On honey the levy is one-tenth: for every ten skins, one skin.” (2)