Name:
الليث بن أبى سليم : أيمن أو أنس أو زيادة أو عيسى ، ابن زنيم
القرشى ، أبو بكر و يقال أبو بكير ، الكوفى
Layth
bin Abi Sulaym: Ayman or Anas or Ziyaad or Eesa, Ibn Zunaym al-Qurashi, Abu
Bakr and it is said, Abu Bukayr, al-Koofi
Tabaqah: 6 –
From the Contemporaries of Minor Taabi’een
Death: 148
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Narrated by:
Bukhaari in Ta’leeq Form – Muslim – Abu Dawood – Tirmidhi – Nasaa’ee – Ibn Maajah
Teachers: Shahr
bin Hawshab, Tawoos bin Kaysaan, Aamir ash-Sha’bee, Ataa bin Abi Ribaah,
Ikrimah the Servant of Ibn Abbaas, Naafi’ the servant of Ibn Umar, Abu az-Zubayr
al-Makki and many others.
Students:
Ismaa’eel bin Ulayyah, Ismaa’eel bin Ayyaash, Hafs bin Ghiyaath, Zaa’idah bin
Qudaamah, Zuhayr bin Mu’aawiyah, Shu’bah bin al-Hajjaaj, Sufyaan ath-Thawree,
Abdur Rahmaan bin Muhammad al-Muhaarbi, Fudayl bin Ayyaadh, Ma’mar bin Raashid
and others.
Status: Da’eef,
Sa’ee ul-Hifdh
Opinions of Ahl ul-Jarh wat Ta’deel:
Those who criticized him:
1- Imaam Yahya ibn Ma’een said: “His hadeeth is nothing, he is
Da’eef”
[Al-Jarh wat
Ta’deel by Ibn Abi Haatim: 7/178]
2- Imaam Ahmed bin Hanbal said: “The hadeeth of Layth bin Abi
Sulaym is not delightful.”
[Musnad Ali
bin al-Ja’d: 612, Chain Saheeh]
He also said: “Layth
is Da’eef in Hadeeth”
[Musnad Ali
bin al-Ja’d: 612, Chain Saheeh]
He also said: “The
hadeeth of Layth bin Abi Sulaym is Mudtarib, but the people have narrated from
him”
[Al-Jarh wat
Ta’deel by Ibn Abi Haatim: 7/178, Chain Saheeh]
3- Imaam Abu Zur’ah ar-Raazi said: “He is Layyin ul-Hadeeth,
evidence is not taken from him in hadeeth according to the people of knowledge”
[Al-Jarh wat
Ta’deel by Ibn Abi Haatim: 7/179]
4- Imaam Abu Haatim ar-Raazi said: “He is Da’eef in hadeeth”
[Al-Jarh wat
Ta’deel: 7/179]
Imaam Abu
Haatim ar-Raazi and Imaam Abu Zur’ah ar-Raazi both have said: “(The hadeeth
of) Layth is not to be dealt with, and he is Mudtarib ul-Hadeeth”
[Al-Jarh wat
Ta’deel: 7/179]
5- Imaam Wakee’ ibn al-Jarraah said: “Layth Layth! Sufyaan did not
used to take the name of Layth”
[Al-Jarh wat
Ta’deel by Ibn Abi Haatim: 7/178, Chain Saheeh]
6- Abu Ma’mar al-Qatee’ee said: “(Imaam Sufyaan) Ibn Uyaynah
would not praise the memory of Layth bin Abi Sulaym”
[Al-Jarh wat
Ta’deel by Ibn Abi Haatim: 7/179, Chain Saheeh]
7- Imaam Jareer bin Abdul Humayd said: “Layth’s memory was more
deteriorated than them (i.e. Ataa bin as-Saaib and Yazeed bin Abi Ziyaad)”
[Al-Jarh wat
Ta’deel by Ibn Abi Haatim: 7/178, Chain Hasan]
8- Imaam Amr bin Ali al-Fallaas said: “(Imaam) Yahya (bin Sa’eed
al-Qattaan) would not narrate from Layth”
[Al-Jarh wat
Ta’deel by Ibn Abi Haatim: 7/178]
9- Imaam Shu’bah bin al-Hajjaaj said to Layth bin Abi Sulaym that: “How
did you ask (masaail/ahadeeth) from Ataa, Tawoos, and Mujaahid all in one
single Meeting?” So he said: “Ask your Father about this!”
[Al-Jarh wat
Ta’deel by Ibn Abi Haatim: 7/178, Chain Saheeh]
Imaam Abu
Haatim said: “The question of Shu’bah from Layth bin Abi Sulaym about the Ijtimaa’
of all these three men in one mas’ala denotes that he (Shu’bah) rejected him”
[Muqaddimah
Al-Jarh wat Ta’deel: 151]
10-
Imaam Bukhaari said: “He
was truthful, but would sometimes err in some things”
[Sunan
at-Tirmidhi: 2801]
Moreover,
Imaam Bukhaari once graded his hadeeth, saying: “It is not authentic”
[Saheeh
Bukhaari: 1/117, Under H. 838]
11-
Imaam Tirmidhi said: “Layth
used to narrate things as Marfoo’ which others did not narrate as such, and for
that he was declared Weak”
[Sunan
at-Tirmidhi: 2801]
12-
Imaam Ibn Khuzaymah
said: “We do not take evidence from the hadeeth of Layth bin Abi Sulaym”
[Saheeh Ibn
Khuzaymah: 952]
13-
Imaam al-Bazzaar said: “Layth
was afflicted with Ikhtilaat (deterioration of memory), and this hadeeth is not
proven from him; and because of that weakness remained in his hadeeth”
[Musnad
al-Bazzaar: 4880]
14-
Imaam Sufyaan said, I
asked Imaam Ayyoob as-Sakhtiyaani: “What is with you that you don’t write
narrations from Tawoos?” He said: “I went to him and I saw that he was
sitting between two people, Layth bin Abi Sulaym and Abdul Kareem bin Abi
Umayyah, therefore, I came back and abandoned narrating from him”
[Ad-Du’afa
al-Kabeer by Al-Ukaylee: 4/15, Al-Ma’rifah wal Taareekh by al-Fasawi: 3/57,
Chain Saheeh]
15-
Imaam Ibn Adee said: “Besides
the ahadeeth that I mentioned, Layth bin Abi Sulaym has several Saalih
narrations, Shu’bah, Ath-Thawree and others from the Thiqah people have
narrated from him, and despite his weakness that is in him, his narration is to
be written down (for Mutaabi’aat or Shawaahid)”
[Al-Kaamil:
2/252]
16-
Imaam Ali bin
al-Madeeni said: “Mujaalid is more beloved to me than Layth and Hajjaaj bin
Artaat”
[Ad-Du’afa
al-Kabeer by al-Ukaylee: 4/16, Chain Saheeh]
Mujaalid bin
Sa’eed is Da’eef according to Imaam Ibn al-Madeeni, therefore Layth bin Abi
Sulaym would also certainly be weak according to him.
17-
Imaam ad-Daaraqutni
said: “He was a man of Sunnah. His narration is to be narrated (i.e. in
Mutaabi’aat)” Then he said: “The only thing he was rejected for was that
he mixed Ataa, Tawoos, and Mujaahid”
[Su’alaat
al-Barqaani: 421]
He further
said: “He is Da’eef”
[Sunan
ad-Daaraqutni: 1/331, 3/269]
At another
place, he said: “He is Sa’ee ul-Hifdh (weak in memory)”
[Same: 1/68]
He also said: “He
is not Strong”
[Same: 2/191]
18-
Imaam Uthmaan bin Abi
Shaybah said: “He is Thiqah Sadooq, and he is not an evidence”
[Taareekh
Asmaa ath-Thiqaat by Ibn Shaaheen: 1189]
It means that
his personal quality was that he was Thiqah Sadooq, but he was not Hujjah when
it came to Hadeeth, in fact he is Da’eef, as Imaam Uthmaan bin Abi Shaybah also
said about Muhammad bin al-Hasan al-Asdi that: “He is Thiqah Sadooq. I asked:
Is he hujjah also? He replied: As for being a Hujjah then he is not, and he is
Da’eef”
[Taareekh
Asmaa ath-Thiqaat by Ibn Shaaheen: 1267]
It becomes
clear that Imaam Uthmaan also considers him Da’eef in accordance to the
Jamhoor.
19-
Imaam Nasaa’ee said: “He
is Da’eef”
[Ad-Du’afa
al-Kabeer by al-Nasaa’ee: P. 9]
20-
Imaam Ibn Hibbaan said:
“He got deteriorated at the end of his age until he did not know what he is
narrating! He would alter the chains, he would narrate the Mursal narrations as
Marfoo’, and he would narrate things from Thiqah people which were not from
their ahadeeth. All this happened in his Ikhtilaat”
[Al-Majroheen
by Ibn Hibbaan: 2/231]
21-
Imaam Ibn Sa’d said: “He
is Da’eef in hadeeth”
[Tabaqaat
al-Kubra by Ibn Sa’d: 5/174]
22-
Imaam Ibraaheem bin Ya’qoob
al-Juzjaani said: “He is declared weak, he is not an established
narrator”
[Ahwaal ur-Rijaal:
132]
23-
Imaam Tahaawi said: “His
narration is not strong according to the people of knowledge in Asaaneed”
[Sharh Mushkil
ul-Athaar by Tahaawi: 3/373]
He also said: “And
his narration, as is not hidden from the people of knowledge in Riwaayah”
[Sharh Mushkil
ul-Athaar by Tahaawi: 4/313]
24-
Haafidh Bayhaqi said: “According
to the people of knowledge in hadeeth, he is not a Memorizer, he makes a lot of
mistakes”
[Ma’rifat
us-Sunan wal Athaar by Bayhaqi: 3/182]
He also said: “The
people of knowledge in hadeeth have declared him Da’eef”
[Al-Sunan
al-Kubra lil Bayhaqi: 4/108]
He also said: “And
I do not take evidence from the narration of Layth”
[Kitaab
al-Qira’at lil Bayhaqi: 300]
He also said: “He
is Da’eef”
[Ma’rifat us-Sunan
wal Athaar lil Bayhaqi: 1/479]
25-
Haafidh Ibn Abdil Barr
said: “He is Da’eef”
[Al-Tamheed by
Ibn Abdil Barr: 8/210]
He also said: “And
he is Layth bin Abi Sulaym – Da’eef, not a Hujjah”
[Al-Istidhkaar:
8/314]
26-
Mu’ammal bin Fadl said:
“I asked Eesa bin Yoonus, why did you not narrate from Layth bin Abi Sulaym?
He replied: I saw him and he had deteriorated, and he would climb up the minaret
at the time night disappeared (i.e. in Fajr time), and give Adhaan”
[Al-Jarh wat
Ta’deel by Ibn Abi Haatim: 7/178, Chain Hasan]
27-
Haafidh Sama’aani said:
“He got deteriorated at the end of his age until he did not know what he is
narrating! He would alter the chains, he would narrate the Mursal narrations as
Marfoo’, and he would narrate things from Thiqah people which were not from
their ahadeeth.”
[Al-Ansaab by
As-Sama’aani: 1/76]
Similarly, the
following people have also declared Layth to be “Da’eef” in Hadeeth:
28-
Imaam Ibn Hazm [Al-Muhalla:
6/134]
29-
Haafidh Ibn al-Qattaan
[Badar al-Muneer by Ibn al-Mulaqqin: 6/140]
30-
Haafidh Ibn al-Jawzee [Al-Ilal
al-Mutanaahiyah: 1/77]
31-
Haafidh Ibn Abdil Haadi
[Tanqeeh Kitaab at-Tahqeeq: 1/396]
32-
Haafidh Sakhaawi [Al-Maqaasid
al-Hasanah: 1/742]
33-
Haafidh Ibn Rajab [Fath
ul-Baari by Ibn Rajab: 1/394]
34-
Haafidh As-Suyooti [Al-Aali
al-Masnoo’ah: 3/161]
35-
Muhammad Taahir Patni [Tadhkirat
al-Mawdoo’aat: 42]
36-
And Allaamah Sindhi
Hanafi [Haashiah as-Sindhi Ala Ibn Maajah: 997] etc.
37-
Haafidh al-Mundhiri
said, while commenting on a hadeeth that: “All its narrators are Thiqaat,
except for Layth bin Abi Sulaym”
[Al-Targheeb
wal Tarheeb lil Mundhiri: 4/537]
38-
Allaamah Zayla’ee
al-Hanafi said: “He is Da’eef”
[Nasb ur-Rayaa
lil Zayla’ee: 3/96]
39-
Allaamah Aynee
al-Hanafi said: “He is Da’eef, evidence is not taken from him”
[Umdat
ul-Qaari: 1/495]
40-
Haafidh Ibn Hajar said:
“Layth is Da’eef because of his weak memory and his Ikhtilaat”
[Al-Mataalib
al-Aaliyah by Ibn Hajar: 3287]
41-
Haafidh an-Nawawi said:
“The Scholars have agreed upon his weakness, the Idtiraab in his hadeeth,
and the weakness of his memory”
[Tahdheeb
al-Asmaa wal Lughaat lil Nawawi: 1/597]
The Testimonies of Jumhoor’s
weakness:
1- Haafidh al-Iraaqi said: “The Jumhoor has weakened him”
[Al-Mughni An
Hamal al-Asfaar: 2/187; Takhreej Ahaadeeth al-Ahyaa lil Haddaad: 1648]
2- Haafidh al-Haythami said: “And Majority has weakened him”
[Majma
az-Zawaaid: 1/90, 91; 2/178]
3- Haafidh Ibn al-Mulaqqin said: “He is Da’eef according to the
Jumhoor”
[Al-Badar
al-Muneer by Ibn al-Mulaqqin: 2/104, 7/227; Tuhfat ul-Muhtaaj: 2/48]
4- Haafidh al-Nawawi said: “The Jumhoor has declared him weak”
[Sharh
Muqaddimah Muslim: 4]
5- Haafidh al-Busayri said: “The Jumhoor has weakened him”
[Zawaaid Ibn
Maajah lil Busayri: 54]
6- Allaamah Sindhi Hanafi said: “And it is said in al-Zawaaid
that it contains Layth bin Abi Sulaym, he is declared weak by the Jumhoor”
[Haashiah
as-Sindhi Ala Ibn Maajah: 1891]
7- Haafidh Suyooti said: “There is a unanimous agreement on the
weakness of Layth bin Abi Sulaym”
[Al-Haawi lil
Fataawa by Suyooti: 3/7-8]
Those who praised him:
1- Imaam al-Ijlee said about him: “Jaaiz ul-Hadeeth” And in
one narration, he said: “There is nothing wrong in him”
[Ma’rifat
ath-Thiqaat lil Ijlee: 1431]
However, this
saying is Shaadh because it is against the Jumhoor of Muhadditheen.
It gets proven that no one from
the Mutaqaddimeen has declared Layth to be “Thiqah”. As for the
narration of Imaam Shu’bah and Imaam Abdur Rahmaan bin Mahdi from him then it
is not of any benefit against the Jarh of Jumhoor, because these two Imaams mostly
narrated from Thiqah only, not always.
Imaam Muslim has narrated from
him in Mutaabi’aat not in Asal, therefore, he is a Da’eef and Mukhtalat
narrator.
Haafidh Ibn Hajar writes: “I
do not know of anyone who explicitly declared him Thiqah”
[Zawaaid Musnad al-Bazzaar by
Ibn Hajar: 2/403]
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