became angry. He then rose, brought out some folios, and began to say, “Where are those who claim that Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn is not the Commander of the Believers in hadith? Yes, Abū Zakariyyā, I slipped—those were only loose pages and I made a mistake—so I wrote it down as a hadith of Ibn al-Mubārak from Ibn ʿAwn, whereas it was actually narrated from Ibn ʿAwn by someone other than Ibn al-Mubārak.” (1)

Our teacher Abū al-Ḥajjāj quoted this story with a broken chain, saying: the ḥadith master Abū Naṣr al-Yūnārtī reported it with his isnād from ʿAbbās.

Aḥmad al-ʿIjli said, “Nuʿaym ibn Ḥammād is reliable, a man from Marw.” (2)

Abū Zurʿah al-Dimashqī said, “He connects reports that other people leave halted.” (3)

Abū Ḥātim said, “His place is one of truthfulness.” (4)

ʿAbbās ibn Muṣʿab said, “Nuʿaym ibn Ḥammād al-Fāriḍī composed works refuting Abū Ḥanīfah, opposed Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, and authored thirteen books against the Jahmites; he was among the most knowledgeable people in the laws of inheritance.” (5)

Ibn al-Mubārak remarked, “This Nuʿaym has come with a serious matter: he wants to invalidate a marriage that has already been contracted and to annul sales that have already taken place—people have raised generations on that basis. He then went to Egypt, where he remained a little over forty years, and the scholars there narrated from him. Later he was taken to Iraq in chains, together with al-Buwayṭī, during the inquisition over the claim that ‘the Qur’an is created,’ and Nuʿaym died at al-ʿAskar.”