I said: He has the same standing as many other reliable transmitters whose reports (1) are recorded in the two Ṣaḥīḥs—or in one of them—yet each of them held some innovation, whether slight or even grave. So what can be done? We ask Allah for pardon and forbearance.
Al-Azraq died toward the end of the year 281 AH (2).
Aḥmad ibn Salāmah (3) informed me, and Abū Sulaymān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Warrāq narrated to me from him, saying: Aḥmad ibn Abī ʿĪsā al-Taymī informed us.
(ḥ) Likewise, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz the jurist told us; Ismāʿīl ibn Ẓafar told us; al-Taymī told us; Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād told us; Abū Nuʿaym told us; Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Naṣībī narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn al-Faraj narrated to us; Kathīr ibn Hishām narrated to us; Jaʿfar ibn Burqān narrated to us, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, from Ḥafṣah who said:
“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ instructed me to terminate my state of consecration during the pilgrimage in which he performed Ḥajj.” (4)
191 – Muḥammad ibn Maslamah ibn al-Walīd, Abū Jaʿfar al-Wāsiṭī*
The long-lived ḥadith scholar, Abū Jaʿfar al-Wāsiṭī al-Ṭayālisī.
He was born in 178 AH.
He narrated in Baghdad from Yazīd ibn Hārūn, Abū Jābir Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Muqriʾ, and Mūsā al-Ṭawīl—who claimed that he had heard from Anas ibn Mālik.