Name:
الحارث بن عبد الله الأعور الهمدانى الحوتى الخارفى ، أبو زهير الكوفى
Al-Haarith
bin Abdullah al-A’war al-Hamdaani al-Hawti al-Khaarfi, Abu Zuhayr al-Koofi
Tabaqah: 2 –
From the Major Taabi’een
Death: In
the caliphate of Ibn az-Zubayr
Narrated by:
Abu Dawood – Tirmidhi – Nasaa’ee – Ibn Maajah
Teachers:
Zayd bin Thaabit, Abdullah bin Mas’ood, Ali bin Abi Taalib, and Buqayrah the
wife of Salmaan al-Faarsi
Students:
Aamir ash-Sha’bee, Ataa bin Abi Ribaah, Abu Ishaaq al-Hamdaani, and others.
Status:
Severely Weak, Kadh-dhaab (Liar)
Opinions of Ahl ul-Jarh
wat Ta’deel:
The Testimony of Jumhoor:
1- Haafidh Dhahabi said: “The Jumhoor declare his matter to be
weak”
[Meezaan al-I’tidaal:
1/437]
2- Haafidh Sakhaawi said: “The Jumhoor has weakened Al-A’war;
and his tawtheeq has been narrated from Ahmed bin Saalih”
[Al-Qaul
al-Badee by Sakhaawi: P. 223]
3- Haafidh Haythami said: “The Jumhoor has declared him weak,
and he has also been authenticated”
[Majma
az-Zawaaid: 8/57-58, 9/149]
4- Haafidh Ibn al-Mulaqqin said: “The Jumhoor has declared him
weak, and some have authenticated him”
[Al-Badar
al-Muneer: 5/453]
5- Ibn Hajar al-Makki al-Haytami said: “The Jumhoor has declared
him weak”
[Al-Fataawa
al-Kubra: 266]
6- Haafidh Nawawi said: “There is a unanimous agreement on the
weakness of Al-Haarith Al-A’war, and the abandonment from taking evidence from
him”
[Al-Majmoo lil
Nawawi: 3/288]
7- Al-Busayri said: “There is agreement on his weakness”
[Misbaah
uz-Zajaajah: 1/177]
Those who criticized him:
1- Imaam Sha’bee said: “Al-Haarith narrated to me, and I bear
witness that he is one of the Liars”
[Muqaddimah
Saheeh Muslim: 1/14; Al-Kaamil by Ibn Adee: 2/185; Al-Jarh wat Ta’deel: 3/78,
Chain Saheeh]
2- Imaam Ibraaheem an-Nakha’ee said: “Certainly Haarith is
accused of lying”
[Muqaddimah
Saheeh Muslim: 1/15, Chain Saheeh]
3- Imaam Ayyoob as-Sakhtiyaani said: “(Imaam) Ibn Sireen thought
the common narrations that many people (including Haarith al-A’war) narrate
from Ali (radiallah anhu) is Baatil”
[Al-Kaamil by
Ibn Adee: 2/186, Chain Saheeh]
4- Imaam Ali ibn al-Madeeni said: “Al-Haarith is a Liar”
[Al-Kaamil by
Ibn Adee: 2/158, Chain Saheeh]
5- Imaam Abu Bakr bin Ayyaash said: “Al-Haarith was not more
pleasing than the other narrators, others were more pleasing than him. People
used to say that he is the possessor of many books”
[Al-Jarh wat
Ta’deel: 3/78, Chain Saheeh]
6- Imaam Yahya bin Sa’eed al-Qattaan said: “Sufyaan said, we
know the preference of the hadeeth of Aasim over the hadeeth of Haarith”
[Al-Kaamil by
Ibn Adee: 2/158, Chain Saheeh]
7- Imaam Abu Khaythamah Zuhayr bin Harb said: “Al-Haarith al-A’war
was a Liar”
[Al-Jarh wat
Ta’deel: 3/79, Chain Saheeh]
8- Imaam Jareer bin Abdul Humayd ar-Raazi said: “Haarith al-A’war
is a fraudulent”
[Ad-Du’afa
al-Kabeer by al-Ukaylee: 1/209, Chain Saheeh]
9- Hamzah bin Habeeb az-Ziyaat said: “Murrah bin Sharaaheel
al-Hamdaani heard some things from Haarith al-A’war, thus he rejected them. He
said to him: Sit here until I came back, thus Murrah al-Hamdaani entered and
prepared his sword, when Haarith saw that the matter has grown worse, he ran
away”
[Ad-Du’afa
al-Kabeer by al-Ukaylee: 1/201, Chain Hasan]
10-
Imaam Amr bin Ali al-Fallaas
said:
11-
“Yahya and Abdur
Rahmaan would not narrate from Abu Ishaaq the hadeeth of Haarith narrated from
Ali”
[Ad-Du’afa
al-Kabeer: 1/210, Chain Saheeh]
12-
Imaam Bandaar said: “Yahya
and Abdur Rahmaan took the pen from me and crossed out about 40 narrations of
Haarith al-A’war from Ali”
[Ad-Du’afa
al-Kabeer by Ukaylee: 1/209, Chain Saheeh]
13-
Imaam Abu Haatim
ar-Raazi said: “He is Da’eef in hadeeth, he is not strong, and neither from
those whose hadeeth is taken as evidence.”
[Al-Jarh wat
Ta’deel: 3/79]
14-
Imaam Abu Zur’ah
ar-Raazi said: “Evidence is not taken from him”
[Al-Jarh wat
Ta’deel by Ibn Abi Haatim: 3/79]
15-
Imaam Ibn Adee said: “And
normally what he narrated from Ali and Ibn Mas’ood is not preserved.”
[Al-Kaamil:
2/186]
16-
Imaam Nasaa’ee said: “He
is nothing in hadeeth”
[Khasaais Ala
lil Nasaa’ee: H. 30]
He also said: “He
is not strong”
[Ad-Du’afa wal
Matrokeen: 114]
Note: The
saying “There is nothing wrong in him” by Imaam Nasaa’ee concerning
Haarith is not proven from him.
17-
Imaam Ibn Abi Haatim
said: “Ash-Sha’bee has accused him of Lying”
[Al-Jarh wat
Ta’deel: 3/78]
18-
Imaam Ibn Hibbaan said:
“He’s exaggerated in Tashee’, he is wasted in hadeeth”
[Al-Majroheen:
1/222]
19-
Imaam Ibn Sa’d said: “He
had a weak saying (i.e. Madhab), and he was weak in hadeeth”
[Tabaqaat
al-Kubra: 6/116]
20-
Imaam Tirmidhi said: “Some
people of knowledge have weakened Haarith al-A’war”
[Sunan at-Tirmidhi:
under H. 282]
21-
Imaam ad-Daaraqutni
said: “When he is alone in narrating, his hadeeth is not established”
[Al-Ilal
ad-Daaraqutni: 4/21]
He also
mentioned him Kitaab ad-Du’afa wal Matrokeen [153]
22-
Imaam Uthmaan bin Sa’eed
ad-Daarimi said: “His hadeeth is not followed”
[Taareekh
ad-Daarimi An Yahya ibn Ma’een: P. 91]
23-
Imaam Ibn Mundhir said
about a narration: “The hadeeth of Haarith is not proven, Sha’bee has
declared him a Liar”
[Al-Awsat by
Ibn al-Mundhir: 3/114 H. 1335]
24-
Imaam Bayhaqi said: “He
is Da’eef”
[Al-Sunan
al-Kubra lil Bayhaqi: 2/256; 4/260]
He also said: “Evidence
is not taken from the likes of him”
[Al-Sunan
al-Kubra: 2/143]
He also said: “Evidence
is not taken from the hadeeth of Haarith due to the criticism of Huffaadh on
him”
[Al-Sunan
al-Kubra: 6/267]
25-
Haafidh Ibn Hazm said: “And
al-Haarith is a Liar (Kadh-dhaab)”
[Al-Muhalla:
6/21]
26-
Ibn al-Ammaad said: “He
is accused of lying”
[Shadhraat adh-Dhahab
by Ibn al-Ammaad: 1/73]
27-
Imaam Ibn Abdil Barr
said: “He is Da’eef”
[Al-Tamheed by
Ibn Abdil Barr: 13/440]
28-
Imaam Ibn al-Qattaan
al-Faasi said: “Al-Haarith is accused of lying”
[Bayaan
al-Wahem wal Ayhaam by Ibn al-Qattaan: 3/13]
29-
Haafidh Ibn al-Jawzee said:
“It has passed several times in our book that he is a Kadh-dhaab (Liar)”
[Al-Mawdoo’aat
by Ibn al-Jawzee: 3/11]
30-
Haafidh Sakhaawi [al-Maqaasid:
116]
31-
Haafidh Ibn al-Mulaqqin
[al-Badar al-Muneer: 9/396]
32-
And Haafidh Suyooti [Al-Aali
al-Masnoo’ah: 3/1488]
Have declared
him Kadh-dhaab (Liar)
33-
Haafidh Nawawi said: “And
they have agreed upon that Haarith is Kadh-dhaab (Liar)”
[Khulaasah
al-Ahkaam: 1/418]
34-
Haafidh Iraaqi said has declared him “Da’eef”
[Takhreej
Ahaadeeth al-Ahyaa: 2/377]
35-
Ibn Turkamaani
al-Hanafi said: “A group has declared him Kadh-dhaab (liar)”
[Al-Johar
al-Naqi: 4/166]
He also said: “He
is Da’eef”
[Al-Johar
al-Naqi: 4/286]
36-
Haafidh Zayla’ee
al-Hanafi said: “Evidence is not taken from him”
[Nasb
ur-Rayaa: 2/426]
He also said: “He
is severely weak”
[Takhreej
al-Kashaaf: 1/42]
37-
Allaamah Aynee
al-Hanafi said: “This hadeeth is Da’eef, in fact close to being Baatil, for
verily although Abu Ishaaq has heard this hadeeth from Haarith, but the
condition of Haarith is known”
[Sharh Abi
Dawood lil Aynee: 4/132]
38-
Haafidh Haythami [Majma
az-Zawaaid: 1/187]
39-
And Haafidh Ibn Hajar [al-Nakat:
1/340] have declared him “Severely weak”
40-
Allaamah Sindhi
al-Hanafi said that he is a “Da’eef” narrator
[Haashiah
as-Sindhi Ala Ibn Maajah: 92, 369, 955]
Those who praised him:
1- Imaam Yahya ibn Ma’een said: “He is Thiqah”
[Taareekh
ad-Daarimi: 233]
This tawtheeq
is not acceptable because of being against the Jumhoor.
Moreover,
Imaam Ibn Ma’een has also declared Haarith al-A’war to be Weak.
[Al-Jarh wat
Ta’deel: 3/79]
This saying is
in accordance to the Jumhoor; therefore, it is given preference. Otherwise, both
sayings will be considered Saaqit.
2- Imaam Ahmed bin Saalih al-Misri said: “He is Thiqah, how
preserved and better his narrations are from Ali! And he praised him”
[Al-Thiqaat by
Ibn Shaaheen: 282]
This saying
was not found with a chain therefore, it is not acceptable. Imaam Ahmed bin
Saalih al-Misri died in 248 H. Whereas, Imaam Ibn Shaaheen was born in 297 H.
We come to know that al-Haarith
bin Abdullah al-A’war is a Da’eef and Kadh-dhaab narrator with the agreement of
all Scholars.
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