He also narrated from ʿAbbad ibn Suhayb, Rūḥ ibn ʿUbādah, and a number of others.
Those who in turn narrated from him include al-Ḥusayn ibn Ṣafwān, Mukram ibn Aḥmad the judge, Abu Bakr al-Shāfiʿī, and others besides them.
Abu Bakr al-Barqānī said: “He is very weak. Al-Dāraquṭnī used to say, ‘His ḥadith is not to be written.’”
Abu Bakr al-Shāfiʿī said: “He died in the year 278 AH.”
Abu al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿUqda said: “He passed away in 279 AH.”
I say: In al-Ghaylāniyyāt (1) his isnād is exceedingly elevated, yet among its disasters is the following:
He said:
“Abu al-Hudhayl al-ʿAllāf narrated to us: ‘The doctrine of justice and monotheism that I profess, I received from ʿUthmān al-Ṭawīl. He told me that he had taken it from Wāṣil ibn ʿAṭāʾ, who had taken it from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥanafiyyah, who had received it from his father, who said he had taken it from his father ʿAlī. ʿAlī had taken it from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and the Messenger informed him that Gabriel had brought it down from Allah Most High.’”
A group of transmitters reported this from Zurqān, so the accusation of fabrication rests with him.
- Mūsā ibn Sahl ibn Kathīr, Abu ʿImrān al-Baghdādī *
The muhaddith and centenarian, Abu ʿImrān al-Baghdādī, the cloth-dealer and embroiderer—one of the weak narrators whose condition is still deemed tolerable.