and al-Mukhalliṣ in Selected Benefits (8/4/1), Ibn Hibban in Weak Narrators (2/230–231), al-Hakim (2/6), al-Daraqutni in the Sunan (3/7/17), as well as al-Bayhaqi (5/266) and the Branches also (2/86/1230 and 4/221/4850), and al-Tabarani in the Middle Compendium (8/192/7390), through the route of Kathir ibn Hisham: Kulthum ibn Jawshan al-Qushayri narrated to us, from Ayyub, from Nafiʿ, from Ibn Umar, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: … and he mentioned it.

The additional wording is found in al-Daraqutni and Ibn Hibban. The latter said:

“Kulthum ibn Jawshan narrates inverted reports from trustworthy narrators, and fabricated reports from trustworthy narrators!”

That is what he said. But this is part of his excessiveness and exaggeration, for he also listed him in Trustworthy Narrators (7/356), and that is closer to the mark. Ibn Abi Hatim said (3/164):

“I asked my father about Kulthum ibn Jawshan, and he said: ‘He is weak in hadith.’”

It was also narrated from Ibn Maʿin that he said:

“There is no harm in him.”

Al-Bukhari likewise deemed him trustworthy, as stated in al-Hafiz’s Tahdhib and elsewhere. Thus, he occupies a middle position and his hadith are good, Allah willing.

When al-Hakim said after the hadith:

“This Kulthum was a Basran who narrated few hadiths,”

al-Dhahabi did not comment on it in his Epitome, except to say:

“I say: Abu Hatim declared him weak.”

Yet in the Balance, he rated him favorably, saying in his biographical entry: