al-Khashshāb, the ward of Zayd ibn Aslam,

He narrated from Saʿīd al-Maqburī, Nāfiʿ al-ʿUmarī, ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb, Nuʿaym al-Mujmir, Ibn Shihāb, and—most frequently and with keen insight—from Zayd ibn Aslam.

Those who transmitted from him include Wakīʿ, Ibn Wahb, Ibn Abī Fudayk, Abū ʿĀmir al-ʿAqadī, al-Qaʿnabī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Nāfiʿ, Jaʿfar ibn ʿAwn, Abū Nuʿaym, and others.

ʿAbbās reported that Ibn Maʿīn said, “There is weakness in him.”

Aḥmad said, “He was not a ḥāfiẓ.”

Abū Ḥātim remarked, “He and Ibn Isḥāq are, to me, on the same footing.”

Aḥmad also observed, “Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd would not narrate from him.”

Abū Dāwūd declared, “He is trustworthy—the most accurate of people regarding Zayd ibn Aslam.”

ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad said: I asked my father about him, and he replied, “He is such-and-such.”

Muʿāwiyah ibn Ṣāliḥ conveyed from Ibn Maʿīn: “He is not especially strong.”

Ibn ʿAdī stated, “Despite his weakness, his hadith is written down.”

Ibn Ḥibbān, in his habitual overstatement, mentioned that he narrates from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib—so it appears in the copy before us.

He then said: “He was one of those who transmit an isnād (1) without understanding, attributing mawqūf reports as though they were fully connected, without realising it. Because he frequently contradicted the firmly reliable transmitters in what he related from …"