As for their father:
136 – Ṣāliḥ ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Hamdānī
He is truthful and judged reliable, one of al-Shaʿbī’s students. Al-Nasāʾī and others declared him trustworthy, and his narrations are found in the Six Books. He died before al-Aʿmash. Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿIjlī, however, said of him, “He is not strong.”
As for his namesake:
137 – Ṣāliḥ ibn Ḥayyān al-Qurashī al-Kūfī
He is sometimes confused with Ṣāliḥ ibn Ḥayy, but he is a different person. He narrates from Ibn Buraydah, Abū Wāʾil, Nāfiʿ, Suwayd ibn Ghafalah, and several others. Among those who transmitted from him are ʿAlī ibn Mushir, ʿAbdah ibn Sulaymān, and a number of others. He is weak.
Ibn ʿAdī said, “Most of what he relates is unpreserved.”
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn said, “Weak.”
Al-Bukhārī said, “There is cause for scrutiny.”
Al-Nasāʾī said, “He is not trustworthy.”
Our teacher Abū al-ʿAbbās (1) based, in his book al-Ṣārim al-Maslūl, an argument on a hadith of Ṣāliḥ ibn