Sahih Muslim

‘The people would transmit from Jābir before there appeared what appeared, then when there appeared what appeared, the people imputed him in his Ḥadīth and some of the people abandoned him’. So it was said to said: ‘Belief in ar-Raj’ah’.

‘I have 70,000 Ḥadīth all of which are on authority of Abū Ja’far on authority of the Prophet ﷺ’.

‘Indeed I have fifty thousand Ḥadīth that I have not narrated from at all’. said: ‘Then that day he related a Ḥadīth and said, ‘This is from the fifty thousand’.

‘I have fifty thousand Ḥadīth on authority of the Prophet ﷺ’.

{Thus I will never depart from the land until my father permits me or Allah decides for me, and He is the best of Judges}’. Jābir said, ‘that is an interpretation for these verses’, and he would lie as they were regarding the brothers of Yūsuf عليه السلام’.

‘I heard Jābir talking about something like 30,000 Ḥadīth .’ Muslim said, I heard Abū Ghassān Muhammad bin Amr ar-Rāzī say, ‘I asked Jarīr bin Abd il-Hamīd: ‘Did you meet al-Hārith bin Hasīrah? He said: ‘Yes, Shaykh of lengthy silence; he persisted in a grave matter.’

‘He is not upright in speech ’.

‘Indeed I have a neighbor’ and he mentioned some of his virtues, ‘…even if he testified to me about two dates I would not see his testimony as permissible’.

‘I did not see Ayyūb speaking ill of anyone, ever, except for Abd al-Karīm- meaning Abū Umayyah’. So he mentioned him and said, may Allah have mercy on him ‘He is not trustworthy- he had asked me about a Ḥadīth of Ikrimah then said ‘I heard from Ikrimah’ .’

‘Al-Barā’ .

‘Indeed this one alleges he has met eighteen of the warriors of the battle of Badr’. Qatādah said: ‘This one was barely asking regarding it. By Allah, al-Hasan did not narrate to us from a witness of the battle of Badr without an intermediary; and Sa’īd bin al-Musayyib did not narrate to us from a witness of the battle of Badr without an intermediary except from Sa’d bin Mālik’.

Uthmān bin Abī Shaybah narrated to us, Jarīr narrated to us, on authority of Raqabah that ‘Abū Ja’far al-Hāshimī al-Madanī was fabricating narrations with words of truth, and they were not from the narrations of the Prophet ﷺ, though he was transmitting them on authority of the Prophet ﷺ.’

‘Amr bin Ubayd would lie regarding Ḥadīth’.

‘Whoever carries arms against us then he is not from us’. said ‘Amr lied, by Allah. Rather he intended it as a way to permit his filthy opinion.’

‘A man kept company with Ayyūb and listened ’.

‘There is no flogging the one who gets drunk from Nabīdh’.’ said: ‘He lied, for I heard al-Hasan saying, ‘Flog the one who gets drunk from Nabīdh’.’

‘Have you seen a man whose Dīn you do not trust- how do you trust him regarding Ḥadīth?’

‘Amr bin Ubayd narrated to us before what happened’ .

‘I wrote to Shu’bah asking him about Abū Shaybah , a judge of Wāsit, so he wrote to me: ‘Do not write anything from him ’.

‘I narrated to Hammād bin Salamah lied’.