who said, “My father narrated to me.”

Abū Bakr ibn Khuzayma said: “As for this shaykh, Sa‘īd ibn Suwayd, I know of neither an attestation to his uprightness nor any criticism of him. This ‘Abd al-Rahmān ibn Ishāq is Abū Shayba al-Kūfī, a weak hadith narrator who transmitted objectionable reports from al-Nu‘mān ibn Sa‘d, from ‘Alī ibn Abī Tālib—may Allah be pleased with him—from the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. ‘Abd al-Rahmān ibn Abī Laylā did not hear hadith from Mu‘ādh ibn Jabal. Mu‘ādh died in Syria early in the caliphate of ‘Umar ibn al-Khattāb, may Allah be pleased with him.”

Ibn Khuzayma said: “Thus none of these reports is established م where ‘Abd al-Rahmān ibn ‘Ā’ish is mentioned, because of the defects we have noted in these chains of transmission. Someone who has not studied the subject in depth might suppose that the report of Ibn Yahyā ibn