Abdul Momin has recorded Saif's places from al-Hamawi.

Abdul Momin has recorded Saif's places from al-Hamawi. Last person, we found, who had said that had Saif's book in his possession is Ibn Hajar (d. 852 H.L.). The author of al-Esabah. The value of Saif's recordings Yahya Bin Ma‘een (d. 233 H.L.), "His narrations are weak and useless." Nesa’i (d. 303 H.L.) in Sahih, "His narrations are weak, they should be disregarded because he was unreliable and not trustworthy." Abu Dawood (d. 316 H.L.), "Of no value - he is a liar." Ibn Abi Hatam (d.

327 H.L.), "They have abandoned his narrations." Ibn al-Sakan (d. 353 H.L.), " I t is weak." Ibn ‘Adei (d. 365 H.L.), "It is weak, some of his narrations are famous yet the majority of his narrations are disgraceful and not followed." Ibn Hebban (d. 354 H.L.) "In the stories he has made, he has mentioned the names of trustful men, but they say he was accused of heresy and forged narrations." Al-Hakem (d.

405 H.L.) "His narrations are abandoned, he was accused of heresy." Khatib al-Baghdadi......... Ibn ‘Abd al-Barr (d. 463 H.L.) narrated from Abi Hayan that "Saif's narrations are abandoned, we mentioned them for knowledge only." Safiod Din (d. 923 H.L.) "Considered weak." Firoozabadi (d. 817 H.L.) in Tawalif mentioned, Saif with the others saying they are weak. Ibn Hajar (d. 852 H.L.) after one of his narrations mentioned, that it is narrated by weak narrators, weakest of them all is Saif.

These are the biographers views about Saif and his narrations. Now let us consider the narrations themselves. And to do so we have to refer to the history of al-Tabari among others because it is dated earlier than others and more referred to in history books. al-Tabari had narrated, too many of Saif's narrations quoting from his two books, al-Fotooh wal-Radah and al-Jamal. Also he narrated from his narrations about al-Saqifa and the death of ‘Othman.

Thus making Saif stories an important reference, referred to all Islamic histories up to day. We shall consider al-Tabari's history first and then other narrators who depended on Saif's in their narrations and we shall compare and contrast his narrations with others to find out the methods he used in forging them and the value of his stories. Previous…