It was recorded by Muslim (1) on the authority of Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā al-Nīshābūrī.
Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and others informed us; they said:
al-Ḥasan ibn Ṣabbāḥ informed us; Ibn Ghadīr, the specialist in the laws of inheritance, informed us; Abū al-Ḥasan al-Khilaʿī informed us; Abū Saʿd al-Mālinī informed us; Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbdah narrated to us; Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Turk narrated to us; Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā narrated to us:
“I read before Mālik, from Abū al-Zinād, from al-Aʿraj, from Abū Hurayrah, that the Prophet ﷺ said: ‘Beware of suspicion, for suspicion is the most deceitful of speech (2),’” and he related the remainder of the ḥadīth.
21 – al-Marwazī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Sulaymān
The shaykh and ḥadīth scholar Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Sulaymān al-Marwazī, later al-Baghdādī.
He heard ḥadīths from ʿĀṣim ibn ʿAlī, Abū ʿUbayd al-Qāsim ibn Sallām, ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd, Khalaf ibn Hishām, and Bishr ibn al-Walīd—and he transmitted abundantly from ʿĀṣim.
Those who narrated from him include al-Najjād, Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī, Makhlad al-Bāqarḥī, and al-Ṭabarānī.