Al-Dāraqutnī said, “He is truthful.”

Ghunjar al-Bukhārī related: Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Rāzī narrated to us: I heard al-Ḥārith ibn Abī Usāmah say to me:
“I have six daughters; the youngest of them is sixty years old. I have not married off any one of them because I am poor, and only a poor man has ever come to propose. I disliked adding to my dependants. My shroud has been hanging on a peg for thirty years, for fear they might not find a shroud for me when I die.”

Besides Ghunjar, others also transmitted this report from al-Rāzī.

Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Mālik al-Iskāfī said: “I asked Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī about al-Ḥārith ibn Muḥammad and remarked, ‘He accepts dirhams.’ He replied, ‘Listen to him, for he is trustworthy.’ (1)”

Abū al-Fatḥ al-Azdī said: “He is weak; I have not seen any of our teachers transmit from him.”

I say: This is exaggeration; if only al-Azdī had recognized his own weakness.

Al-Barqānī said: “Al-Dāraqutnī instructed me to extract al-Ḥārith’s narrations for inclusion in the Ṣaḥīḥ.”

Ibn Ḥazm said in al-Muḥallā: “Weak.”

I say: There is nothing objectionable about the man; his hadiths are sound. He is the one who transmitted the Book of Intellect from Ibn al-Muḥabbar, and it is said that he heard from ʿAlī ibn ʿĀṣim. I believe I have seen that attributed to him. Likewise, it is said that he narrated from Abū Badr al-Sakūnī.

We have heard a portion of his Musnad, and his only shortcoming is that he accepted payment for narration; so perhaps—and this seems to be the case—that he