ʿĪsā ibn Shadhān remarked, “He has some objectionable (munkar) reports.”
I add: al-Bukhārī cited him in the section on Etiquette, while Ibn Mājah includes his narrations and al-Nasāʾī relates from him in the chapter on the Prophet’s distinctive virtues in his Sunan.
Muṭayyan said: “He died in 185 AH.”
Muhammad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Asadī—together with his cousin Ayyūb ibn Abī Bakr, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUmayrah, Aḥmad ibn Muʾmin, ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, Baybars al-Majdī, and Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Wāsiṭī—narrated to us, saying:
“Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUthmān informed us; and Abū al-Maʿālī al-Abarqūhī likewise informed us, reporting from Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Qāsim the exegete, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Maʿālī, Ṣafiyyah daughter of ʿAbd al-Jabbār, Saʿīd ibn Yāsīn, ʿUmar ibn Barakah, and Anjab ibn Abī al-Saʿādāt (h).”
Sunqur ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥalabī also related to us; ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Yūsuf, Anjab al-Ḥammāmī, ʿAlī ibn Abī al-Fakhkhār, ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Muḥammad, and Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Sabbāk likewise transmitted to us, all of them saying:
“Abū al-Fatḥ Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī informed us.”
Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUthmān added: “ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṭūsī also informed us.” Together they said:
“Mālik ibn Aḥmad al-Farrāʾ related to us; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Ṣaltī related to us; Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad dictated to us; Abū Saʿīd al-Ashajj narrated to us; al-Muṭṭalib ibn Ziyād transmitted to us from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAqīl, who said:
‘I was with Jābir in his house along with ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥanafiyyah, and Abū Jaʿfar when a man from Iraq entered and said, “I adjure you by Allah to tell me what you personally saw and heard from the Messenger of Allah, ﷺ.”
Jābir replied, “We were at al-Juḥfah, at Ghadīr Khumm (1), and there were many people from Juhaynah and Muzaynah…’”