Sulaymān ibn Ḥarb said, “Whenever you mention Abū al-Nuʿmān, remember Ayyūb and Ibn ʿAwn as well.” (1)

al-ʿUqaylī related: My grandfather told me, “In Basra I never saw a shaykh whose prayer was more beautiful than ʿĀrim’s. People used to say, ‘He learnt his prayer from Ḥammād ibn Zayd, who had learnt it from Ayyūb.’ ʿĀrim was the most reverent worshipper I ever beheld—may Allah have mercy on him.” (2)

I say: Abū Dāwūd did not transmit from him because of the change that overtook him. The correct principle is that anyone whose speech becomes garbled like that of a drunkard should never be relied upon, and that anyone whose memory has markedly deteriorated should likewise not be taken from.

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Faqīh informed us in his book; ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad informed him; Hibat Allāh ibn Muḥammad informed us; Ibn Ghailān informed us; Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī informed us; Ismāʿīl ibn Isḥāq informed us; ʿĀrim narrated to us; Saʿīd ibn Zayd narrated to us, from ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥakam, from Abū Naḍrah, from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī:

“It has been forbidden for a man to drink while standing, and to put the mouth of the waterskin to his own mouth and drink from it.”

This ḥadith has a sound chain of transmission. (3) ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥakam is a narrator used by al-Bukhārī and is regarded as trustworthy.

Muḥammad ibn al-Mundhir Shakkar, quoting one of his teachers, said: “I was with ʿAbd al-Razzāq, and some of the material I still needed remained. As I intended to travel, I mentioned this to him, but he rebuked me, so I left.”