Abū Zurʿah set out on his travels after that, and this point deserves consideration. None of this shaykh’s reports are found in the Six Canonical Collections—Allah knows best.

115 – ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad ibn Muslim al-Juhanī (Kh, D, T, Q)

The Imām, ḥadith scholar, and leading authority of the Egyptians: Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Juhanī—their client—an Egyptian, and the scribe of al-Layth ibn Saʿd.

I have already discussed his case in Mīzān al-Iʿtidāl, where I treated him with a measure of leniency.

In any case, he was truthful in himself, one of the vessels of knowledge. Yet he was afflicted with the same weakness that befell his teacher Ibn Lahīʿah and grew lax until his ḥadith became weak. Even so—praise be to Allah—he was not discarded, and the reports for which he was censured are but few compared with the vast number he transmitted (1).

He was born in 137 AH.

He met Zabban ibn Fāʾid and ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith.

He heard ḥadith from Mūsā ibn ʿUlayy ibn Rabāḥ, Muʿāwiyah ibn Ṣāliḥ, Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Mājishūn, al-Layth ibn Saʿd, Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz of Damascus, Nāfiʿ ibn Yazīd, Ḍimām ibn Ismāʿīl, Ibn Wahb, and many others.