Ḥajjāj narrated—from Ibn Jurayj, from ʿAṭāʾ, from Abū Saʿīd—in a report traced back to the Prophet (marfūʿ): “Whoever hates ʿUmar has in fact hated me, and whoever loves him has loved me. ʿUmar is with me wherever I dwell, and I am with ʿUmar wherever he dwells.” (1)
Abū Nuʿaym ibn ʿAdī remarked, “He transmitted objectionable reports from reliable narrators,” while al-Azdī said, “He used to fabricate hadith.” (2)
48 – Abū Zurʿah al-Rāzī, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm * (M, T, S, Q)
The Imām, master of the ḥuffāẓ, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Yazīd ibn Farrūkh, was the foremost traditionist of Rayy. The insertion of the letter zāʾ in his nisbah (“al-Rāzī”) is an irregular formation, like “al-Marwazī.”
He was born a little after 200 AH.
Ibn Abī Ḥātim reports that Abū Zurʿah heard from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿIjlī and al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAṭiyyah ibn Najīḥ (3), both of whom, according to what has reached me, died in 211 AH. Either the error lies in their recorded death year, or in his birth year, or in whether he actually met them.
(1) Additional material from Lisan al-Mizan, 1/140.
(2) Al-Daraqutni said: “Others are more accurate than he is.” He also cited for him, in the section on Malik’s rarities, a hadith whose chain contains an error, and declared: “Ahmad ibn Bakr is weak.” Ibn Hibban nevertheless listed him in al-Thiqat but remarked that he “used to make mistakes.” See Lisan al-Mizan, 1/141.
(*) Main biographical sources: Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil, 1/328-349 and 5/324-326; Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Tarikh Baghdad, 10/326-337; Ibn Abi Yaʿla, Tabaqat al-Hanabila, 1/199-203; Ibn ʿAsakir, Tarikh Dimashq (MS), 10/345a-352a; Ibn al-Jawzi, al-Muntazam, 5/47-48; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal (MS), 883-885; al-Dhahabi, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib (MS), 3/18-19; al-Dhahabi, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, 2/557-559; al-Dhahabi, al-ʿIbar, 2/28-29; Ibn Kathir, al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya, 11/37; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 7/30-34; al-Suyuti, Tabaqat al-Huffaz, 249-250; Ibn Hajar, Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal, 251-252; Ibn al-ʿImad, Shadharat al-Dhahab, 2/148-149.
(3) This point is recorded in al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil, 3/27 (under the entry of al-Hasan ibn ʿAtiyya) and 5/86 (under the entry of ʿAbd Allah ibn Salih).