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and the army grew with the arrival of Ja‘far and those who came with him from Abyssinia, such as Abū Mūsā al-Ash‘arī and his companions, and the Abyssinians who accompanied Ja‘far aboard the ship. Their numbers were further increased by the people of Khaybar who were with them. Yet none of these people narrated this report. This is grounds for concluding with certainty that it is a fabricated lie.

Criticism of Fudayl and those after him is contingent upon certainty that they (1) narrated it. Otherwise, its attribution to them is open to question, for the first narrator to transmit it from Fudayl is al-Husayn ibn al-Hasan al-Ashqar al-Kūfī (2). (* Al-Bukhārī said: “He transmits rejected reports.” Al-Nasā’ī and al-Dāraqutnī (3) said: “He is not strong.” Al-Azdī said: “Weak.” Al-Sa‘dī said: “Husayn al-Ashqar *) (4) is an extremist who reviles the best people.” Ibn ‘Adī said: “He narrated a rejected hadith, and in my judgment the fault lies with him. A number of weak narrators in Kūfa would ascribe to him the hadiths they transmitted from him (5).”

As for the third chain of transmission, it includes ‘Ammār ibn Matar, narrating from Fudayl ibn Marzūq. It was said by

(1) m: annahum (that they). (2) All manuscripts read: “Husayn ibn al-Husayn al-Ashqar al-Kūfī.” The correct reading is the one I have adopted. For his biography, see Mīzān al-I‘tidāl, 1:531–532, and Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb, 2:335–337. His full name is al-Husayn ibn al-Hasan al-Ashqar al-Fazārī al-Kūfī. Ibn Hajar said: “Al-Bukhārī said: ‘His reliability is questionable.’ On another occasion, he said: ‘He transmits manākīr (unacceptable reports).’” (3) n, s, b: “And al-Nasabī said: al-Dāraqutnī said.” The correction follows Mīzān al-I‘tidāl, 1:531, and Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb, 2:337. (4) The passage between the two asterisks is omitted from (m). (5) Mīzān al-I‘tidāl, 1:531, states: “Ibn ‘Adī said: ‘A number of weak narrators attribute reports to Husayn al-Ashqar, although his own hadiths do contain some defects.’ He listed unacceptable reports transmitted by him and said concerning one of them: ‘In my judgment, the fault lies with al-Ashqar.’”

وَازْدَادَ الْعَسْكَرُ بِجَعْفَرٍ وَمَنْ قَدِمَ مَعَهُ مِنَ الْحَبَشَةِ، كَأَبِي مُوسَى الْأَشْعَرِيِّ وَأَصْحَابِهِ، وَالْحَبَشَةِ الَّذِينَ قَدِمُوا مَعَ جَعْفَرٍ فِي السَّفِينَةِ، وَازْدَادُوا أَيْضًا بِمَنْ كَانَ مَعَهُمْ مِنْ أَهْلِ خَيْبَرَ، فَلَمْ يَرْوِ هَذَا أَحَدٌ مِنْ هَؤُلَاءِ، وَهَذَا مِمَّا يُوجِبُ الْقَطْعَ بِأَنَّ هَذَا مِنَ الْكَذِبِ الْمُخْتَلَقِ. وَالطَّعْنُ فِي فُضَيْلٍ وَمَنْ بَعْدَهُ إِذَا تُيُقِّنَ بِأَنَّهُمْ (١) رَوَوْهُ، وَإِلَّا فَفِي إِيصَالِهِ إِلَيْهِمْ نَظَرٌ ; فَإِنَّ الرَّاوِيَ الْأَوَّلَ عَنْ فُضَيْلٍ: الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ الْأَشْقَرُ الْكُوفِيُّ (٢) ، (* قَالَ الْبُخَارِيُّ: عِنْدَهُ مَنَاكِيرُ. وَقَالَ النَّسَائِيُّ وَقَالَ الدَّارَقُطْنِيُّ (٣) : لَيْسَ بِالْقَوِيِّ. وَقَالَ الْأَزْدِيُّ: ضَعِيفٌ. وَقَالَ السَّعْدِيُّ: حُسَيْنٌ الْأَشْقَرُ *) (٤) غَالٍ مِنَ الشَّاتِمِينَ لِلْخِيرَةِ. وَقَالَ ابْنُ عَدِيٍّ: رَوَى حَدِيثًا مُنْكَرًا، وَالْبَلَاءُ عِنْدِي مِنْهُ، وَكَانَ جَمَاعَةٌ مِنْ ضُعَفَاءِ الْكُوفَةِ يُحِيلُونَ مَا يَرْوُونَ عَنْهُ مِنَ الْحَدِيثِ فِيهِ (٥) . وَأَمَّا الطَّرِيقُ الثَّالِثُ فَفِيهِ عَمَّارُ بْنُ مَطَرٍ، عَنْ فُضَيْلِ بْنِ مَرْزُوقٍ. قَالَ

(١) م: أَنَّهُمْ. (٢) فِي جَمِيعِ النُّسَخِ: حُسَيْنُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ الْأَشْقَرُ الْكُوفِيُّ. وَالصَّوَابُ مَا أَثْبَتُّهُ، وَتَرْجَمَتُهُ فِي مِيزَانِ الِاعْتِدَالِ ١/٥٣١ - ٥٣٢ تَهْذِيبِ التَّهْذِيبِ ٢/٣٣٥ - ٣٣٧ وَاسْمُهُ الْكَامِلُ الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ الْأَشْقَرُ الْفَزَارِيُّ الْكُوفِيُّ، قَالَ ابْنُ حَجَرٍ: " قَالَ الْبُخَارِيُّ: فِيهِ نَظَرٌ، وَقَالَ مَرَّةً عِنْدَهُ مَنَاكِيرُ " (٣) ن، س، ب: وَقَالَ النَّسَبِيُّ قَالَ الدَّارَقُطْنِيُّ. وَالتَّصْوِيبُ مِنْ مِيزَانِ الِاعْتِدَالِ ١/٥٣١، تَهْذِيبِ التَّهْذِيبِ ٢/٣٣٧. (٤) مَا بَيْنَ النَّجْمَتَيْنِ سَاقِطٌ مِنْ (م) . (٥) فِي مِيزَانِ الِاعْتِدَالِ ١/٥٣١: وَقَالَ ابْنُ عَدِيٍّ: جَمَاعَةٌ مِنَ الضُّعَفَاءِ يُحِيلُونَ بِالرِّوَايَاتِ عَلَى حُسَيْنٍ الْأَشْقَرِ، عَلَى أَنَّ فِي حَدِيثِهِ بَعْضَ مَا فِيهِ. وَذَكَرَ لَهُ مَنَاكِيرَ، قَالَ فِي أَحَدِهَا: الْبَلَاءُ عِنْدِي مِنَ الْأَشْقَرِ ".