“...and he related accounts from the Gospel and the Torah.” All of this confirms that he was a storyteller and preacher. Such a person would not be fit to serve as a judge; this is why Wakīʿ did not include him in his book Akhbār al-Quḍāt (Accounts of Judges). Al-Dārimī gave it the heading: “Chapter on the concession concerning storytelling.” He then said: “Abū Muḥammad—that is, al-Dārimī—said: The man from among the people of Badr was Ali.”

I say: The same occurred in al-Bazzār’s narration in al-Baḥr al-Zakhkhār (3/130), through Rūḥ ibn ʿUbādah, who said: Shuʿbah informed us; ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Maysarah informed us; I heard Kardūs ibn ʿAmr say: “I heard a man from among the people of Badr”—Shuʿbah said: “I take him to have been Ali ibn Abī Ṭālib”—“that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘For stories to be recounted in detail is dearer to me than such-and-such a chapter.’” Shuʿbah said: “I asked ʿAbd al-Malik, ‘Which detailed narration?’ He replied, ‘Storytelling.’”

Al-Bazzār said: “We know of no hadith narrated by Kardūs ibn ʿAmr from Ali other than this hadith.” Al-Haythamī said in al-Majmaʿ (1/161): “Al-Bazzār narrated it, and Kardūs in its chain was declared trustworthy by Ibn Ḥibbān, while Abū Ḥātim said: ‘There is cause for scrutiny concerning him.’ The rest of its narrators are narrators of the Ṣaḥīḥ.” This is what he said, and al-Ḥāfiẓ endorsed it in Mukhtaṣar al-Zawāʾid (1/134)!

2917 — “We used to return greetings of peace during our prayer, but we were forbidden to do so.”

It was reported by al-Ṭaḥāwī in Sharḥ al-Maʿānī (1/263), al-Bazzār in his Musnad (1/268/554—Kashf al-Astār), and al-Ṭabarānī in al-Muʿjam al-Awsaṭ (2/246/1/