on The Variant Readings with Their Underlying Causes; the book The Seven Readings; the treatise Against Reason (1); the volume Reports of the Storytellers; and various other works.

Had he shown greater care in transmission, he would have been worthy of the title Shaykh al-Islam.

Abū ʿAmr al-Dānī said: “His testimony is admissible. Fāris narrated to us; I heard ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn say, ‘I heard Ibn Shanabūdh say:

‘I left Damascus and came upon a caravan in which was al-Naqqāsh, a loaf of bread in his hand. He asked me, “What became of al-Akhfash?” I replied, “He has passed away.” Al-Naqqāsh then turned away. He also said, “I recited to al-Akhfash.”’”

Ṭalḥah ibn Muḥammad al-Shāhid remarked: “Al-Naqqāsh fabricated ḥadith, and storytelling was what preoccupied him most” (2).

Abū Bakr al-Barqānī said: “Every ḥadith transmitted by al-Naqqāsh is objectionable” (3).

The ḥadith master Hibat Allāh al-Lālikāʾī stated: “The correct title of al-Naqqāsh’s tafsīr is Ishfāʾ al-Ṣudūr, not Shifāʾ al-Ṣudūr” (4).

Al-Khaṭīb said: “His narrations contain disapproved material, even though they come through well-known chains of transmission” (5).

Abū Bakr narrated from Abū Ghālib, from his grandfather Muʿāwiyah ibn ʿAmr, from Zāʾidah, from Layth, from Mujāhid, from Ibn ʿUmar:

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said, “Allah does not accept the supplication of one beloved person against another beloved person.”