this very Ṣāliḥ ibn Ḥayyān; he even rated the report sound, and thus the confusion on that point became firmly fixed.

It was related by Ḥajjāj ibn al-Shāʿir—himself a ḥāfiẓ—through the ḥāfiẓ Zakariyyā ibn ʿAdī, from ʿAlī ibn Mushir, from Ṣāliḥ ibn Ḥayyān, from Ibn Buraydah, from his father d. ﵁, who said:
“There was a clan from Banū Layth two miles outside Madinah. In the Days of Ignorance a man had proposed marriage to them, but they refused him. He later came to them wearing a fine cloak and declared, ‘The Messenger of Allah ﷺ clothed me with this and ordered me to rule over your wealth and your lives.’
“He then went and lodged with the woman he had once sought to marry. The people sent word to the Messenger of Allah, who said, ‘The enemy of Allah has lied!’
“He dispatched a man, telling him, ‘If you find him alive—and I do not expect you will find him alive (1)—strike off his head; but if you find him dead, burn him.’
“The envoy arrived to discover that a snake had bitten the man and he had died, so he burned his body.
“That is the background to the Prophet’s ﷺ statement: ‘Whoever deliberately fabricates a lie about me, let him take his seat in the Fire.’

Our teacher also cited the report through the isnād of Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, from Yaḥyā al-Ḥimmanī, from ʿAlī ibn Mushir.

This ḥadith is munkar, and no one narrated it except this weak Ṣāliḥ ibn Ḥayyān al-Qurashī (2).

138 – Abū Dulāmah, Zand ibn al-Jawn *
The poet, convivial companion, and collector of anecdotes, Zand ibn al-Jawn, who was black, from