—a curious one.

He used to say, “Our companion So-and-so narrated it to us.” When that continued for a long time, however, the shaykh forgot; the report would be read aloud to him and he would relate it as coming from ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb. (1)

Maymūn ibn Isbagh said: I heard Ibn Abī Maryam say, “Al-Qāsim ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar narrated to us, from ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb, the ḥadith about the fire.”

Saʿīd then commented, “Ibn Luhayʿah heard it from Ziyād ibn Yūnus al-Ḥaḍramī, from al-Qāsim. Ibn Luhayʿah liked the report, but later he began to claim that he was transmitting it from ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb.”

Yaḥyā ibn Bukayr related: It was said to Ibn Luhayʿah, “Ibn Wahb alleges that you did not hear these narrations from ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb.” Ibn Luhayʿah took offense and replied, “And what would Ibn Wahb know? I heard these aḥadith from ʿAmr before Ibn Wahb’s own parents had even met.”

Ḥanbal said: I heard Abū ʿAbd Allāh [Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal] say, “Ibn Luhayʿah’s ḥadith is no proof in and of itself, but I still write it down for comparison, for some parts of it reinforce others.”

Abū ʿUbayd al-Ājurrī reports from Abū Dāwūd, who told me that Ibn Abī Maryam said, “None of Ibn Luhayʿah’s books were burned— not a single volume. A governor simply wished to pardon him, so he sent him five hundred dinars.” (2)

And I heard Qutaybah say, “We would write down nothing of Ibn Luhayʿah’s ḥadith except from the books of Ibn—”