Muḥammad ibn al-Muṣayyab al-Arghiyānī said: I heard Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā remark, “Strike out his ḥadith with six pens.” ⦗1⦘
Abū Yaḥyā Ṣāʿiqah said, “Whenever we sat with al-Himmanī, one calamity after another became plain to us.” ⦗2⦘
Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣadaqah and Abū Shaykh both transmitted—from Ziyād ibn Ayyūb Dallawayh—who said, “I heard Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd declare, ‘Muʿāwiyah died on a creed other than Islam.’” Abū Shaykh added: Dallawayh said, “The enemy of Allah has lied.” ⦗3⦘
Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd ibn Masʿūd al-Marwazī reported from his father: I heard ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Samarqandī say, “I arrived in Kūfah and lodged near Ibn al-Himmanī. I rehearsed with him some ḥadiths I had heard in Basrah—part of the transmissions of Sulaymān ibn Bilāl. He found them strange and said, ‘I never heard this from Sulaymān.’
“Later I left my books with him and sealed them. When I returned, I found the seals broken. I asked, ‘What has happened to these books?’ He replied, ‘I do not know.’ Yet I discovered that the very narrations I had discussed with him from Sulaymān had been inserted into his own compilations.
“I asked, ‘Did you actually hear them from Sulaymān ibn Bilāl?’ He answered, ‘Yes.’” ⦗4⦘
Ibn Khirrāsh said: Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā related to us from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, who said, “I deposited my books with Yaḥyā al-Himmanī, and among them was the ḥadith of Khālid…"