He fabricated ḥadīths. As for ʿAmmār ibn Maṭar, al-ʿUqaylī (1) said, “He would cite objectionable reports on the authority of trustworthy narrators,” and Ibn ʿAdī (2) declared, “He is abandoned in ḥadīth.”

He went on: Fuḍayl ibn Marzūq was judged weak by Yaḥyā (3). Ibn Ḥibbān (4) remarked, “He transmits spurious reports and errs when narrating from reliable authorities.”

With this same chain, al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAsākir related:

Abū Muḥammad narrated to us, from Ṭāwūs; ʿĀṣim ibn al-Ḥasan narrated to us; Abū ʿAmr ibn Mahdī narrated to us; Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿUqda narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā al-Ṣūfī narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Shurayk narrated to us; he said: my father told me, from ʿUrwah ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Qushayr, who said:

I visited Fāṭimah bint ʿAlī and saw a bead around her neck and two thick bracelets on her wrists—though she was an elderly woman. I asked, “What is this?” She replied, “It is disliked for a woman to imitate men.” She then told me that Asmāʾ bint ʿUmays had informed her that ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib came to the Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him—while revelation was descending upon him. The Prophet covered him with his cloak and he remained thus until the sun declined—meaning it had set or was just about to set. When the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, regained composure, he asked, “Have you prayed, O ʿAlī?” He replied, “No.” The Prophet then supplicated:

“O Allah, return the sun for ʿAlī.”

So it came back until it reached the middle of the mosque.

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān added: My father also narrated to me from Mūsā al-Juhanī something similar.

Al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAsākir then said, “This ḥadīth is objectionable (munkar), and its chain contains more than one unknown narrator.”

Shaykh Abū al-Faraj Ibn al-Jawzī stated in al-Mawḍūʿāt (5): “Ibn Shāhīn likewise transmitted this report from Ibn ʿUqda and mentioned it.” He continued, “It is false, and the one suspected of fabricating it is Ibn ʿUqda, for he was a Rāfiḍī who used to narrate disparaging accounts about the Companions.”

Al-Khaṭīb (6) said: ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Naṣr narrated to us; I heard Ḥamzah ibn Yūsuf say (7): “Ibn ʿUqda was in the Barāthā Mosque dictating disparaging reports about the Companions—or, he said, about the two Shaykhs—so I left him.”

Al-Dāraquṭnī said, “Ibn ʿUqda was a wicked man,” and Ibn ʿAdī (8) reported: “I heard Abū Bakr ibn Abī Ghālib say, ‘Ibn ʿUqda observes no piety in matters of ḥadīth, because…’”}