Muhammad bin humaid ar-razi
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Muhammad ibn Humaid al Razi
‘Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf ibn Khurash said “Ibn Humaid narrated to us, and by Allah, he used to lie.”[7]
Ibrahim ibn Yusuf said, “Abu Zur’ah and Muhammad ibn Muslim narrated from Muhammad ibn Humaid many narrations, then they stopped narrating from him.”[8]
Al ‘Iraqi said, “He is one of the liars.”
Al Bukhari said, “There is scepticism about him.”[9][10]
Al Nasa’i said, “He is not trustworthy.”[11][12]
Abu Zur’ah considered him a liar.[13]
Salih Jazarah said, “I have never seen anyone more skilled in lying and deviating from the truth.”[14]
Salih ibn Muhammad al Asadi says, “I have never seen anyone more skilled in lying than Sulaiman al Shadhkuni and Muhammad ibn Humaid.”[15]
Yaqub ibn Shaybah said, “Many munkar[16] (contradictory) reports.”[17][18]
Al Dhahabi said, “Munkar al hadith (one who reports unacceptable reports).”
Ibn Rajab said, “Muhammad ibn Humaid narrates munkar reports and is suspected of lying. So, his solitary narrations that contradict reliable narrators should not be considered.”[19]
Ibn Hibban said, “He used to narrate solitary Maqlub (inverted) narrations that would contradict reliable narrators, especially when he narrated from the scholars of his city.”[20]
Ibn Hajar said, “He is Da’if (weak).”[21]
Al Dhahabi transmitted from Abu Ahmed al ‘Assal who said, “I heard Fadlak saying, ‘I came to Ibn Humaid, and he was attaching chains to words [of narrations].’ Al Dhahabi said, “This act was his affliction, otherwise, I do not believe that he would fabricate the text.” This is the meaning of the saying of the Muhaddithin, “So-and-so saraq al Hadith (lit. appropriated the Hadith).[22]”[23]
Abu Hatim said, “Yahya ibn Ma’in asked me about Ibn Humaid before his condition became apparent, and he said, ‘What do you criticize about him?’ I said, ‘At times there is a narration written in his book; we say this is not like this, it is like that and like that; so, he takes the pen and changes it according to what we say.’ Ibn Ma’in said, ‘This is a bad trait.’”[24]
Whenever Imam Ahmed was asked about Ibn Humaid after Abu Zur’ah and Ibn Warah confirmed that Ibn Humaid lied, he would dust his hands.[25]
Al Tirmidhi says, “Initially al Bukhari had a good opinion of Muhammad ibn Humaid al Razi, and then he considered him weak later on.”[26]
Ibn al Qattan said, “Muhammad ibn Humaid was authenticated by some people, but then he was affected by what weakened him, and he was sometimes accused of being a liar. Abu Zur’ah and Muhammad ibn Muslim ibn War’ah used to write Hadith from him, then they stopped narrating from him.”[27]
When Ibn Khuzaimah, who was from Rayy (The same town as Ibn Humaid), was asked regarding him and informed that al Imam Ahmed had praised him, he said, “He did not know him, and if he had known him as we knew him, he would not have praised him at all.”[28]
When Abu Zur’ah al Razi was told, “Ahmed ibn Hanbal said, ‘The Hadith of Ibn Humaid from Jarir are authentic, and his Hadith from his teachers are unknown.’” Abu Zur’ah said, “We are more knowledgeable than Abu ‘Abdullah (Al Imam Ahmed), may Allah have mercy on him.” He meant in refraining from narrating from Ibn Humaid.[29]
Abu Nuaim ibn ‘Adi said, “I was present with Abu Hatim al Razi in his house, with Ibn Khirash and a group of the elders of the people of Rayy and their Huffaz. They mentioned Ibn Humaid and all agreed that he was very weak in Hadith, that he narrated what he had not heard, and that he took the Hadith of the people of Basrah and Kufah and narrated them from the people of Rayy.”[30]
[7] Tarikh Baghdad, vol. 3, p. 60.
[8] Siyar A’lam al Nubala’, vol. 11, p. 505.
[9] Al Tarikh al Kabir, vol. 1, p. 69.
[10] Takhrij Ahadith Ihya’ al ‘Ulum al Din, vol. 1, p. 488.
[11] Al Abatil wa al Manakir, vol. 2, p. 190.
[12] Takhrij Ahadith Ihya’ al ‘Ulum al Din, vol. 1, p. 488.
[13] Ibid.
[14] Siyar A’lam Al Nubala’, vol. 11, p. 505.
[15] Takhrij Ahadith Ihya’ al ‘Ulum al Din, vol. 1, p. 488.
[16] Munkar refers to a hadith reported by a weak narrator that contradicts other narrations reported by narrators deemed reliable and trustworthy.
[17] Tarikh Baghdad, vol. 3, p. 60.
[18] Takhrij Ahadith Ihya’ al ‘Ulum al Din, vol. 1, p. 488.
[19] Fath al Bari, vol. 5, p.70.
[20] Al Majruhin, vol. 2, p. 303.
[21] Al Taqrib, # 5834.
[22] The term used here is Saraqa, which literally means he stole it. Sariqat al Hadith is a phenomenon in Hadith transmission whereby a report is known to have been narrated through one narrator only—most often weak or severely impugned. A fraudster then narrates the same narration from the initial source—omitting the weak narrator—to give the impression that he had heard it directly. This is a very specific form of hadith forgery, involving not the complete fabrication of a hadith, but rather the fabrication of a co-narration.
[23] Siyar A’lam al Nubala’, vol. 11, p. 504.
[24] Al Jarh wa al Ta’dil, vol. 7, p. 232.
[25] Al Majruhin, vol. 2, p. 304.
[26] Sunan al Tirmidhi, # 1677.
[27] Al Waham Wa al Iyham, vol. 4, p. 412.
[28] Siyar A‘lam al Nubala’, vol. 11, p. 504.
[29] Al Du‘afa’ li Abi Zur‘ah, vol.2 p. 583.
[30] Tarikh Baghdad, vol. 3, p. 60.