Ibn al-Mubarak and al-Qattān abandoned him, for he narrated only a handful of reports and was suspected (1) of holding an innovation. Ibn Maʿīn said, “He is nothing.” Al-Nasāʾī said, “Discarded.”

Shuʿbah related, “ʿUthmān al-Burri passed on a hadith to me from Qatādah. I asked Qatādah about it and he did not recognize it. ʿUthmān kept insisting, ‘No, you are the one who told it to me,’ while Qatādah kept replying, ‘No.’ Qatādah then remarked, ‘Here he is telling me about myself, claiming that I am owed three hundred dirhams by him.’ (2)

Muʾammal ibn Ismāʿīl said: “I heard ʿUthmān al-Burri say, ‘Abū Hurayrah lied.’”

ʿAffān said: “I heard ʿUthmān al-Burri deny the Balance (al-mīzān).”

Muḥammad ibn Kathīr said: “I heard him say, ‘There is no Balance; it is only justice.’ ”

ʿAffān also said: “He was a Qadarī; he made mistakes. The correct version can be found in his written copy, yet he would not refer back to it. Altogether he transmitted twenty hadiths.”

A reliable informant told me that someone once asked him about the phrase tabbat in the Mother of the Book, and he replied, “It is not there; the copy contains only the letters: tā, bā, tā.”

I say: al-Tirmidhī recorded one hadith for him through Zayd ibn Ḥubāb, from Abū Salamah al-Kindī, from Farqad al-Sabakhī—that is, al-Burri himself.

113 – Khārijah ibn Muṣʿab ibn Khārijah al-Ḍubāʿī (T, Q)
The imam, scholar and hadith master, and the leading shaykh of Khurāsān together with Ibrāhīm ibn