Minhaal bin Khaleefah al-Ijlee, Abu Qudaamah al-Koofi

Al-Minhaal bin Khaleefah al-Ijlee

Name:

المنهال بن خليفة العجلى ، أبو قدامة الكوفى

Al-Minhaal bin Khaleefah al-Ijlee, Abu Qudaamah al-Koofi

Tabaqah: 7 – From the Major Taba Taabi’een

Narrated by: Abu Dawood – Tirmidhi – Nasaa’ee

Teachers: Thaabit al-Bunaani, Hajjaaj bin Artaat, Simaak bin Harb, Ataa bin Abi Ribaah, Ali bin Zayd bin Jud’aan, and others.

Students: Abdullah bin Mubaarak, Mu’aawiyah bin Hishaam, Abdullah bin Mubaarak, Wakee’ bin al-Jarraah and others.

Status: Da’eef (Weak)

Jarh:

1-    Imaam Yahya ibn Ma’een said: “He is Da’eef”

[Taareekh Ibn Ma’een, narrated ad-Dauri (2/590) & Al-Kaamil (3/130)]

2-    Imaam Bukhaari said: “Feehi Nadhar”

[Taareekh as-Sagheer by al-Bukhaari: 2/238 & Ad-Du’afa al-Kabeer by al-Ukaylee: 1831, Chain Saheeh]

3-    Imaam Nasaa’ee said: “He is not Strong”

[Ad-Du’afa wal Matrokeen: 573]

4-    Imaam Ibn Hibbaan said: “He is alone in narrating Munkar narrations from the famous narrators; it is not permissible to take evidence from him”

[Al-Majroheen: 3/30]

5-    Imaam Ibn Adee mentioned him among the weak narrators and narrated the criticism of Scholars on him and he did not defend him

[Al-Kaamil by Ibn Adee: 8/40]

6-    Imaam Abu Ahmed al-Haakim said: “He is not strong according to them (i.e. Muhadditheen)”

[Tahdheeb at-Tahdheeb of Ibn Hajar: 10/319]

7-    Haafidh Ibn al-Jawzee mentioned in Ad-Du’afa wal Matrokeen [3/141 T. 3427]

8-    Imaam Abu Hafs Ibn Shaaheen mentioned him Taareekh Asmaa ad-Du’afa wal Kadh-dhaabeen [617]

9-    Imaam Dhahabi said: “He has been weakened”

[Taareekh al-Islaam: 4/236]

Imaam Dhahabi also said: "Waah (Wasted)"

[Al-Muqtani fi Sard al-Kuni: 5120]

10-          Haafidh Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali, while criticizing a chain, said: “Its Isnaad contains Al-Minhaal bin Khaleefah: they have weakened him”

[Fath ul-Baari by Ibn Rajab: 2/86]

11-          Haafidh Ibn Hajar said: “He is Da’eef”

[Taqreeb]

Ta’deel:

1-    Imaam Abu Hafs Ibn Shaaheen mentioned among the Thiqah narrators

[P. 231]

This is contrary to his mentioning of him in Ad-Du’afa wal Kadh-dhaabeen

2-    Imaam Abu Haatim ar-Raazi said: “He is Saalih, write his narrations”

[Al-Jarh wat Ta’deel: 1937]

3-    Haafidh al-Bazzaar said: “He is Thiqah”

[Kashf al-Astaar: 957]

Conclusion:

Minhaal bin Khaleefah has been declared weak by the Jamhoor.