the Rāfidah. He replied: “Do not speak with them or narrate from them, for they lie.”
Abū Hātim said: Harmalah (1) narrated to us [and said] (2): “I heard al-Shāfi‘i say, ‘I have seen no one more prone to bear false witness than the Rāfidah.’”
Mu’ammal ibn Ihāb (3) said: “I heard Yazīd ibn Hārūn (4) say, ‘Reports may be recorded from any adherent of religious innovation, provided that he does not actively call others to it, except the Rāfidah, for they lie.’”
Muhammad ibn Sa‘īd al-Asbahānī (5) said: “I heard Sharīk say, ‘I take knowledge from everyone I have met except the Rāfidah, for they fabricate hadith and regard doing so as a religious practice.’ [This Sharīk was Sharīk ibn Abd Allah al-Qādī, the judge of Kufa and a contemporary of al-Thawrī and Abū Hanīfah. He himself belonged to the Shī‘ah and would openly say, ‘I am one of the Shī‘ah.’ This is his testimony concerning them.] (6)
Abū Mu‘āwiyah (7) said: “I heard al-A‘mash say, ‘I found that people called them nothing but “the liars”’—by which he meant
(1) Abū Abd Allāh Harmala ibn Yahyā ibn Abd Allāh al-Tujībī al-Zamīlī al-Misrī, a disciple of Imam al-Shāfi‘ī, died in 243 AH. See his biography in Ibn Khallikān, 1/353–354, and al-Khazrajī, *al-Khulāsa*, p. 63.
(2) The word *qāla* (“he said”) is an addition in A and B.
(3) Mu’ammal ibn Ihāb ibn Abd al-Azīz al-Raba‘ī died in 254 AH. Abū Hātim described him as truthful. See his biography in al-Khazrajī, *al-Khulāsa*, p. 237.
(4) Yazīd ibn Hārūn al-Sulamī, Abū Khālid al-Wāsitī, was one of the eminent and renowned hadith masters. He died in 206 AH. See his biography in al-Khazrajī, *al-Khulāsa*, p. 374.
(5) Muhammad ibn Sa‘īd ibn Sulaymān al-Kūfī, known as Ibn al-Asbahānī, transmitted from Sharīk, and al-Bukhārī transmitted from him. Al-Nasā’ī declared him trustworthy. He died in 220 AH. See al-Khazrajī, *al-Khulāsa*, p. 288.
(6) The text in square brackets is omitted from N and M.
(7) He is Muhammad ibn Hāzim al-Tamīmī, Abū Mu‘āwiya al-Darīr, a student of al-A‘mash. Al-Nasā’ī declared him trustworthy, while Ibn Shayba said: “He sometimes practiced *tadlīs* (concealing a flaw in the chain of transmission).” He died in 195 AH. See al-Khazrajī, *al-Khulāsa*, pp. 284–285.