So I repeated it. He thereupon said, “Release him,” and added, “You can preserve a narration like this and yet you go out merely for leisure!?”

It is transmitted here with Ibn ʿAbbās in the chain, but the correct narrator is ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr (1).

Ibn ʿAdī said: “Al-Kudaymī was accused of fabricating hadith.”

Ibn Ḥibbān said: “He may have forged more than a thousand hadiths.”

Ibn ʿAdī also stated: “He claimed to have met authorities whom he had never seen; the great majority of our teachers abandoned transmitting from him.”

Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Munādī said: “We had written down reports from al-Kudaymī, but when Abū Dāwūd’s criticism of him reached us, we discarded everything we had heard from him” (2).

Abū ʿUbayd al-Ājurrī said: “I saw Abū Dāwūd declare Muhammad ibn Yūnus to be an out-and-out liar, and Mūsā ibn Hārūn used to forbid people to listen to al-Kudaymī.”

Mūsā—while clinging to the curtains of the Kaʿbah—proclaimed: “O Allah, I bear witness before You that al-Kudaymī is a liar who fabricates hadith” (3).

Qāsim ibn Zakariyyā al-Muṭarriz said: “I shall confront al-Kudaymī before Allah,