and jurists transmit hadith that cannot be cited as evidence because of their poor memory, not because they deliberately lie. The scholars unanimously deemed this al-Raqāshī weak, as the leading authorities in this field know. Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī even said, “Had al-Fadl been born mute, it would have been better for him.” Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna said, “He is of no account.” Imam Ahmad and al-Nasāʾī said, “He is weak.” Yahyā ibn Maʿīn said, “An evil man.” Abū Hātim and Abū Zurʿa said, “He narrates objectionable hadith.”

The same applies to the reports he cited: he included good reports with good chains of transmission, such as his narration from the master Abū Sulaymān al-Dārānī, who said, “When a servant is no longer attached to his desires, he is content.” For he narrated this from his teacher Abū