They relate that ʿAbd Allah ibn Luhayʿah was appointed by Abū Jaʿfar to the judicial post of Egypt in the year 155 AH, a tenure that lasted nine months, during which he received a salary of thirty dinars each month.
As for Abū Aḥmad ibn ʿAdiyy’s earlier remark about the report—“He taught me a thousand chapters, each chapter unlocking a thousand more”—the flaw in it may stem from Ibn Luhayʿah, for he leaned heavily toward Shiʿism. Yet we have never heard this wording from him, nor have I ever known him to be anything but extreme in that leaning; and the man (Ibn ʿAdiyy) is not suspected of inventing ḥadith. More likely the passage was interpolated into al-Kāmil; Ibn ʿAdiyy is a shaykh whose default is honesty. Perhaps one of the Rāfiḍites inserted it into his book and he did not notice—and Allah knows best.
Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd said: When Ibn Luhayʿah’s books were burned, al-Layth ibn Saʿd sent him one thousand dinars the very next day.
Abū Saʿīd ibn Yūnus said: One day Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Nasāʾī mentioned Ibn Luhayʿah and remarked, “I have never extracted anything from his narrations except a single ḥadith—the report of ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith, from Mishraḥ, from ʿUqbah: the Prophet ﷺ said, ‘During the pilgrimage there are two prostrations.’ (1)”
We received it through Hilāl ibn al-ʿAlāʾ, from Muʿāfā ibn Sulaymān, from Mūsā ibn Aʿyan, from ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith.