his hadith should not be abandoned because of an opinion in which he erred”—meaning, divine decree.
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Al-Dūrī said, reporting from Ibn Maʿīn: “He is of no account, and he was accused of denying divine decree.”
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Abū Zurʿah said: “He is weak.” (al-Jarḥ, 3/1/86)
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Abū Ḥātim said: “His hadith was weak. His hadith may be written down, and we consider that he took these hadiths from Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Yaḥyā, from Dāwūd ibn al-Ḥuṣayn, from ʿIkrimah.” (al-Jarḥ, 3/1/86)—without explicitly naming “Ibrāhīm.”
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ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī said: “I heard Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd say: ‘I said to ʿAbbād ibn Manṣūr, “Did you hear the hadith, ‘I passed by an assembly of angels …,’ and, ‘The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, used to apply kohl …’—meaning, from ʿIkrimah?” He replied, “Ibn Abī Yaḥyā narrated them to us from Dāwūd, from ʿIkrimah.”’”
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Abū Dāwūd said: “He is not particularly strong.”
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Al-Nasāʾī said: “He is not an authority.” Elsewhere, he said: “He is not strong.”
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Ibn ʿAdī said, as previously mentioned concerning the preceding hadith: “He is among those whose hadith may be written down.”
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Ibn Ḥibbān said: “Everything that he narrated from ʿIkrimah, he heard from Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Yaḥyā, from Dāwūd ibn al-Ḥuṣayn, from him; yet he concealed this intermediary and presented it as being directly from ʿIkrimah.”
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Al-Dāraquṭnī said: “He is not strong.”
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Aḥmad said: “His hadiths were objectionable; he was a Qadari (one who denied divine decree), and he practised concealment in transmission.”