When I began to enumerate the ...

When I began to enumerate the , he said: All the are just except some referring among them to Abu Hurayrah and Anas ibn Malik. 384 Ibrahim al-Nakha'i is reported to have said: Our companions used to claim some of the traditions reported by Abu Hurayrah and reporting of al-A'mash from him, but they were never approving of all traditions of Abu Hurayrah!

Al-Thawri reported from Mansur ibn Ibrahim as saying: They () were observing something in the traditions of the Messenger of Allah, and were never approving of all the traditions of Abu Hurayrah except those describing the paradise or fire, or urging toward a virtuous deed, or forbidding from an evil mentioned in the Qur'an. 385 Abu Shamah reported from al-A'mash that he said: Ibrahim was known of correct hadith, 386 and whenever hearing any hadith I would come toward him and put it before him.

Once a day I brought him some traditions of Abu Salih that he reported from Abu Hurayrah, when he said: Forget about Abu Hurayrah! they () used to rejecting many of his traditions. Abu Ja'far al-Iskafi is reported to have said: Our Shaykhs were of the opinion that Abu Hurayrah was fraudulent and of disapproved narration... he was beaten by Umar who said to him: You have been relating so many traditions, and I see you to be falsifying traditions of the Messenger of Allah.

387 Ibn al-Athir said: Concerning narration of Abu Hurayrah, there was much suspicion regarding it due to its abundance. 388 In al-Ahkam, al-Amudi writes: The disapproved multiplicity of narrations of Abu Hurayrah since with multiplicity one can never be immune against difference and inexactitude with which that whose narration is less can never be inflicted.

One day, the issue of Misrat 389 took place in the meeting of al-Rashid regarding which a quarrel erupted among the attendants, who started to produce loud voices, with some of whom arguing with the hadith related by Abu Hurayrah. One of them refuted the hadith saying: Abu Hurayrah is suspected in whatever he narrates, the example of whom was followed by al-Rashid. See p. 48. Ta'rikh adab al-Arab, Vol. I, p. 278. Refer too to chapter " Criticizing Each Other" in this book.

And in Ikhtisar 'ulum al-hadith, p. 114, Ibn Hanbal, Abu Bakr al-Hamidi and Abu Bakr al-Sayrafi are reported to have said: The narration of that who falsified and lied in the traditions of the Messenger of Allah can never be accepted, even when he repents and gives up falsity.