124 – Fudayl ibn Marzūq al-ʿAnazī, their client * (4, M, in corroborative chains)

A ḥadith scholar, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-ʿAnazī, their client, from Kufa, nicknamed al-Agharr (“the distinguished”).

He transmitted from ʿAdī ibn Thābit, Abū Salama al-Juhanī, ʿAṭiyya al-ʿUwfī, Shaqīq ibn ʿUqba, and several others. It is also said that he narrated from Abū Ḥāzim al-Ashjaʿī, the companion of Abū Hurayra.

Those who reported from him include Wakīʿ, Yazīd, Abū Usāma, Yaḥyā ibn Ādam, Abū Nuʿaym, ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd, Saʿīd ibn Sulaymān al-Wāsiṭī, and others.

Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna and Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn rated him trustworthy. Ibn ʿAdī said, “I hope there is no objection to him.” Yet another statement from Yaḥyā judges him weak, and al-Nasāʾī likewise said, “Weak.” Al-Ḥākim remarked, “Muslim was criticised for including him in his Ṣaḥīḥ.”

I say: Neither al-Bukhārī, nor al-ʿUqaylī, nor al-Dūlābī listed him among the weak, and—God willing—his narrations are ḥasan. He was, however, a Shīʿī.

Ibn Ḥibbān said, “His ḥadiths are extremely munkar.” I reply: Muslim only cites him for corroboration. It is also said that he brought unacceptable reports from ʿAṭiyya. Ibn Ḥibbān further stated, “He is among those regarding whom I seek Allah’s guidance.”

I say: He was devout. Al-Haytham ibn Jamīl said, “Fudayl ibn Marzūq came—and he was one of the imams of guidance—”