And al-Nasāʾī and others declared, “He is not strong.”
I (the author) say: his narrations fall under the rank of ḥasan.
Yaʿqūb ibn Shaybah said, “He is counted with al-Ashjaʿī for the sheer number of reports he relates from Sufyān, yet people faulted him for frequent mistakes.”
I add: he died in 189 AH.
Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh once mentioned him, remarking, “That man is a monk.”
His son, Dāwūd ibn Yaḥyā, passed away in 203 AH, before he had reached the age at which transmission is accepted. He narrated only a few ḥadith from his father.
ʿAbd al-Ḥāfiẓ ibn Badrān informed us, ʿAbd al-Qādir informed us, Saʿīd ibn al-Bannāʾ informed us, ʿAlī ibn al-Busrī informed us, Abū Ṭāhir al-Dhahabī informed us, Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad narrated to us, Sufyān ibn Wakīʿ narrated to us, Yaḥyā ibn Yamān narrated to us, from Sharīk, from Abū Isḥāq, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, from his father, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Whoever circumambulates the House fifty times emerges from his sins as on the day his mother gave birth to him.”
It was recorded by al-Tirmidhī (1) through Ibn Wakīʿ.
101 – ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Sulaymān, Abū ʿAlī al-Rāzī * (ʿ)
An imam, ḥāfiẓ, and author; Abū ʿAlī al-Rāzī, a resident of Kūfa.