and Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥārith al-ʿAskari, from Ibn Abī Maryam; thus Abū Ṣāliḥ was cleared. (1)

Abū Zurʿah al-Rāzī and others said, “The ḥadīth is a fabrication of Khālid ibn Najīḥ al-Miṣrī, who used to slip forged reports into the notebooks of the senior transmitters.” (2)

I say: It is likely that he inserted it into the transmission of Nāfiʿ ibn Yazīd, even though Nāfiʿ is trustworthy, and Muslim relied on him.

Abū Aḥmad ibn ʿAdī said, “In my view Abū Ṣāliḥ’s ḥadīths are generally sound; errors do occur in his narrations, but he does not lie intentionally.” (3)

Ibn Yūnus and others recorded that Abū Ṣāliḥ died on the Day of ʿĀshūrāʾ, in the year 223 AH. (4)

I add: He had nearly reached ninety years of age, and, in my estimation, his mental acuity was stronger than that of Nuʿaym ibn Ḥammād and Asīd al-Jammāl, and he is not inferior to Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Uways al-Aṣbaḥī.

I was informed by a group reporting from Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād, who said: Abū Nuʿaym narrated to us; al-Ṭabarānī narrated to us; Muṭṭalib ibn Shuʿayb and Bakr ibn Sahl said:

“ʿAbd Allah ibn Ṣāliḥ related to us; Muʿāwiyah ibn Ṣāliḥ related to me; al-ʿAlāʾ ibn al-Ḥārith related to us, from …”