Al-Daraqutni said: “He is not strong.”
Maslamah said: “A liar; he related fabricated hadiths.” Ibn Yunus said: “His hadith is exceedingly inconsistent.” Ibn Hibban said: “He relates objectionable reports from well-known narrators, and inverted reports from trustworthy narrators. It is not permissible to cite as proof anything that he alone narrates.” Ibn Tahir said: “A liar who fabricates hadith.”
I say: Once you know this, al-Bayhaqi’s error in his categorical statement, “Abu Muʿayd narrated from Sulayman ibn Musa …,” as mentioned above, becomes clear. Such categorical wording suggests that the chain to Abu Muʿayd is authentic, yet this route to him contains this weak narrator, who is accused of lying. Such a narrator is not fit even for corroboration, much less for use as proof. Perhaps al-Hafiz merely followed al-Bayhaqi in the foregoing when he said in al-Fath (10/6): “Ahmad recorded it, but its chain contains a break; al-Daraqutni connected it, and all its narrators are trustworthy!” Yet al-Daraqutni connected it only through this route and through the route of the weak Suwayd.
- From a man among the Companions of the Prophet, may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him. Al-Bayhaqi recorded it through Ibn Jurayj, who said: “ʿAmr ibn Dinar informed me that Nafiʿ ibn Jubayr ibn Mutʿim, may Allah be pleased with him, informed him from a man among the Companions of the Prophet, may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him—whom Nafiʿ had named, but whose name I have forgotten—that the Prophet, may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him, said to a man from Ghifar: ‘Rise and proclaim that none shall enter Paradise except a believer, and that these are days of eating and drinking—the days of Mina.’” He added—