al-Husayn (1), from Fātimah bint ‘Alī, from Asmā’ (2), as will be mentioned below.
Abū al-Faraj (3) said: “Ibn Shāhīn also narrated this hadith: We were told (4) by Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Sa‘īd al-Hamdānī, who said: We were told (5) by Ahmad ibn Yahyā al-Sūfī, who said: We were told (6) by ‘Abd al-Rahmān ibn Sharīk, who said: My father told me, from ‘Urwah ibn ‘Abd Allah ibn Qushayr (7), who said: ‘I visited Fātimah bint ‘Alī ibn Abī Tālib, and she told me [that Asmā’ bint ‘Umays had told her] (8) that ‘Alī ibn Abī Tālib…’ He then related the hadith about the sun’s return.”
Abū al-Faraj (9) said: “This hadith is false. As for ‘Abd al-Rahmān ibn Sharīk (10), Abū Hātim (11) said: ‘He is very weak in hadith.’”
He said: “I suspect no one of being responsible for this hadith except Ibn ‘Uqdah (12), for he was a Rāfidī (rejectionist Shī‘ite) who transmitted reports disparaging the Companions.”
“The hadith scholar Abū Ahmad ibn ‘Adī said: ‘I heard Abū Bakr ibn Abī Tālib (13) say: “Ibn ‘Uqdah has no religious scruples in transmitting hadith. He used to induce shaykhs (14) in Kufa to lie, preparing collections of reports for them and instructing them to narrate them. We have demonstrated this conduct of his in