—it is this very ḥadīth about which Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn said, “If I could find a shield and a sword, I would march out to fight Suwayd al-Anbarī.”

Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥākim said: The report, “Whoever falls in love, remains chaste, conceals it, and then dies, dies as a martyr” (1) is rejected with regard to Suwayd.

He then added: When this ḥadīth was mentioned to Yaḥyā he said, “If I had a horse and a spear, I would set out to do battle with Suwayd.”

Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Ṭālib said: I asked Muslim, “How did you consider it permissible to transmit from Suwayd in the Ṣaḥīḥ?”

He replied, “Where else was I to obtain the manuscript of Ḥafṣ ibn Maysarah?”

I say: It was not appropriate for Muslim to include him among the primary transmitters, and I only wish he had supported the ḥadīths of Ḥafṣ ibn Maysarah by narrating them one rank lower as well.

Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allāh informed us—through Zaynab al-Shaʿriyyah; Fāṭimah bint Zaʿbal informed us; ʿAbd al-Ghāfir al-Fārisī informed us; Abū ʿAmr ibn Ḥamdān narrated to us; al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān narrated to us; Suwayd narrated to us—from Shihāb ibn Khirāsh, from Muḥammad ibn Ziyād, from Abū Hurayrah, that the Prophet ﷺ said:

“Allah has never sent a prophet except that among his people were the Murjiʾah and the Qadariyyah who throw his community into confusion, and Allah has cursed them on the tongue of seventy prophets.” (2)

This narration is munkar—objectionable.