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[Adh-Dhahabi, Meezan al-itidal, volume 2, page 614] The importance of Abd ar-Razzaq can be gleaned from the fact that all the six books of Sihaah narrate traditions from him with Bukhari and Muslim narrating over 500 traditions and Ahmad bin Hanbal's Musnad containing well over 1,500 traditions. Hadith were taken from him despite the fact he was openly Shia: Ibn Adi said: Abd ar-Razzaq had numerous hadeeth, and reliable narrators as well as their leaders ha travelled to him and narrated from him.

They did not see any problem in his hadeeth except that they attributed Shi'ism to him. He had narrated traditions regarding the virtues [of ahl al-bayt] that none of the trustworthy narrators agreed upon. His narration of these traditions and those censuring other than them was the reason of their criticism of him.

He was a man of honour and there was nothing wrong with him except that he had set forward traditions in praise of the People of the Household (ahl al-bayt) and disparaging others [and these are] abominable. [Al-Mizzi, Tahdheeb al-kamal , volume 18, pages 60-1] Mukhlid al-Shuayri said: I was with 'Abd ar-Razzaq when someone mentioned Mu'awiya. Abd ar-Razzaq said: 'Do not pollute our assembly by mentioning the descendant of Abu Sufyan!'.

[adh-Dhahabi, Meezan al-itidal, volume 2, page 610] He even narrated a hadeeth from the Prophet (s): "If you see Mu'awiyah on my pulpit then kill him!" [adh-Dhahabi, Meezan al-itidal, volume 2, page 613]. Nasibis call Shias Kafirs whilst those they deem Imams, the most meticulous of hadith recorders took hadith from Shias. Would these scholars have taken hadith from Shia if they considered them kafir?

Ahmad bin Shuhaib an-Nasai condemned Abu Hanifa In Tarikh Baghdad we read: "Imam Nasai declared that Numan Thabit Kufi is an unreliable source of Hadith." Tarikh Baghdad Volume 13 page 421 We also learn: "Sufyan Suhri declared Abu Hanifa was no authority on Hadith" Tarikh Baghdad Volume 13 page 417 On the same page we read that Abu Bakr Daud states: "Abu Hanifa recorded 150 Hadith, half of them were false".

Tarikh Baghdad Volume 13 page 417 On the same page we read that Hanbal was asked about Abu Hanifa he replied that Abu Hanifas opinions of no value nor the Hadith he narrates. Again on the same page we learn that: "Yahya bin Zaeed states that a fistful of mud is better than Abu Hanifa".