—so they did not leave him until he had read it, yet he never said to them, “He narrated to us,” nor “He informed us.”

Al-Suwaydī related this to me.

Adam ibn Mūsā said: I heard al-Bukhārī say, “Whatever ʿAbd al-Razzaq transmits from his written copy is the more reliable.” (1)

Abū Zurʿah al-Rāzī said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Musnadi narrated to us:

“I took leave of Ibn ʿUyaynah and asked, ‘Are you intending to visit ʿAbd al-Razzaq?’ He answered, ‘I fear he is among those whose labor has been wasted in the life of this world.’ (2)”

ʿAbbās said: I heard Ibn Maʿīn say—Hishām ibn Yūsuf [added]—“Maʿmar presented these hadiths to Hammām ibn Munabbih, though he actually heard only a little over thirty of them from him.” (3)

He was referring to the Ṣaḥīfa of Hammām which ʿAbd al-Razzaq relates from Maʿmar from Hammām; it contains one-hundred-plus-thirty hadiths, most of which appear in the two Ṣaḥīḥs.

Al-ʿUqaylī, in his book al-Duʿafāʾ, in the biographical entry of ʿAbd al-Razzaq, said:

Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥammād narrated to us; I heard Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān al-Thaqafī say:

“When al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm returned from being with ʿAbd al-Razzaq in Ṣanʿāʾ, he said to us—while we were a group—‘Did I not take the trouble to travel to ʿAbd al-Razzaq? I entered upon him and stayed with him until I heard from him what I wanted. By Allah, besides whom there is no god, ʿAbd al-Razzaq is a liar, and al-Wāqidī is more truthful than he!’ (4)

I say: Rather—by Allah—ʿAbbās was not truthful in his oath, and what a deplorable thing he has said, directing himself to—