Name:
سهيل بن أبى صالح ، و اسمه ذكوان السمان ، أبو يزيد المدنى ، مولى
جويرية بنت الأحمس امرأة من غطفان ، أخو صالح بن أبى صالح ، و عبد الله بن أبى
صالح ، و محمد بن أبى صالح
Suhayl bin Abi Saalih, and
his (i.e. Abu Saalih’s) name is As-Sammaan, Abu Yazeed al-Madani, the client of
Juwayriyyah bint Al-Ahmas a woman from Ghatfaan; he is the brother of Saalih
bin Abi Saalih, Abdullah bin Abi Saalih, and Muhammad bin Abi Saalih
Tabaqah: 6
– From the contemporaries of Minor Taabi’een
Death: In
the caliphate of al-Mansoor
Narrated by:
Bukhaari – Muslim – Abu Dawood – Tirmidhi – Nasaa’ee – Ibn Maajah
Teachers:
His Father Abu Saalih as-Sammaan, Rabee’ah bin Abi Abdur Rahmaan, Sa’eed bin
al-Musayyab, Sulemaan al-A’mash, Aamir bin Abdullah bin az-Zubayr, Abdullah bin
Buraydah, Abdullah bin Deenaar, Ataa bin Yazeed al-Laythi, Ibn Shihaab
az-Zuhri, Al-Nu’maan bin Abi Ayyaash az-Zuraqi, Abu Ishaaq as-Sabi’ee, Abu
al-Hubaab Sa’eed bin Yasaar, Abu Ubayd al-Haajib, Al-Haarith bin Mukhallid
al-Ansaari and others
Students:
Abu Ishaaq Ibraaheem bin Muhammad al-Fazaari, Ismaa’eel bin Ulayyah, Ismaa’eel
bin Ayyaash, Bishr bin al-Mufaddal, Jareer bin Haazim, Jareer bin Abdul Humayd,
Hammaad bin Zayd, Hammaad bin Usaamah, Rooh bin al-Qaasim, Sa’eed bin Abdur
Rahmaan al-Jumahi, Sufyaan ath-Thawree, Sufyaan Ibn Uyaynah, Sulemaan
al-A’mash, Shu’bah bin al-Hajjaaj, Abdullah bin Idrees al-Koofi, Abdur Rahmaan
bin Abi az-Zinaad, Abdul Azeez bin Muhammad ad-Daraawardi, Ibn Jurayj,
Ubaydullah bin Umar, Maalik bin Anas, Muhammad bin Ajlaan, Yahya bin Sa’eed
al-Ansaari, Ma’mar bin Raashid, Al-Waddaah Abu Awaanah, and others.
Status:
Thiqah, Mukhtalat – His memory got deteriorated in Iraaq thus his hadeeth
narrated in Iraaq is not Hujjah.
Opinions of Ahl ul-Jarh
wat Ta’deel:
1- Imaam Sufyaan Ibn Uyaynah said: “We considered Suhayl bin Abi
Saalih to be Thabat (trustworthy) in Hadeeth”
[Sunan
at-Tirmidhi: 523; al-Kaamil: 2/66, Chain Saheeh]
2- Imaam Ali ibn al-Madeeni said: “Abu Saalih had three sons,
all of them are Thiqah: Suhayl bin Abi Saalih, Abbaad bin Abi Saalih, and
Saalih bin Abi Saalih all of them are Thiqah Thabat”
[Su’aalaat Ibn
Abi Shaybah la Ibn al-Madeeni: 1/110-111]
3- Imaam Ahmed bin Hanbal was asked: “Who is more beloved to
you: Suhayl bin Abi Saalih or Muhammad bin Amr bin Alqamah”… He said: “Suhayl
is more beloved to me”
[Al-Ilal wa
Ma’rifat ur-Rijaal, narrated by his son Abdullah: 3300]
Imaam Ahmed
also said about him: “There is nothing wrong in him”
[Al-Ilal,
narrated by al-Marwazi: 1/80 T. 107 – Tahqeeq Shaykh Waseeullaah Abbaas
al-Makki]
4- Imaam Yahya ibn Ma’een said: “Abu Saalih as-Sammaan has three
sons: Suhayl bin Abi Saalih, Abbaad bin Abi Saalih, and Saalih bin Abi Saalih,
all of them are Thiqah”
[Taareekh Ibn
Ma’een, narrated by ad-Dauri: 3/182]
Note:
This tawtheeq of Imaam Ibn Ma’een is against his Tad’eef. See; sayings of
disparagement (# 2)
5- Imaam Ibn Sa’d said: “He is Thiqah Katheer ul-Hadeeth”
[Tabaqaat
al-Kubra: 1/345 T. 255]
6- Imaam Abu al-Hasan Ahmed bin Abdullah al-Ijlee said: “Suhayl
is Thiqah, and his brother Abbaad is (also) Thiqah”
[Thiqaat by
al-Ijlee: P. 22]
7- Imaam Abu Ahmed bin Adee said: “Suhayl has some manuscripts;
the A’immah have narrated from him, and he narrated from his father, and also
from a group of people who narrated from his father, and this indicates
(towards his sense of) distinction between men; he made distinctions between
what he heard from his father and what he heard from him through other than his
father, and he is trustworthy (Thabat) according to me, there is nothing wrong
in him, his reports are accepted”
[Al-Kaamil by
Ibn Adee: 2/66 paraphrased by al-Mizzi in Tahdheeb: 12/227]
8- Imaam Ibn Sa’d said: “He is Thiqah Katheer ul-Hadeeth”
[Tabaqaat
al-Kubra: 9/223]
9- Imaam Muslim narrated from him in his Saheeh
[See Saheeh
Muslim: H. 55, 101, 188, 211, 244, 415, 758, 959, 987, 1153, 1339, 1373, 1435,
1505, 1511, 1545, 1650, 1878, 1891, 2063, 2106, 2417, 2623, 2637, 2657, 2718,
2896, 2903, 2968, 2995]
10-
Imaam Abu Hafs Ibn
Shaaheen mentioned him in Taareekh Asmaa ath-Thiqaat
[1/108 T. 511]
11-
Imaam at-Tirmidhi
authenticated his hadeeth saying, “This hadeeth is Hasan Saheeh which is
from the hadeeth of Maalik from Suhayl from his father from Abu Hurayrah…”
[Sunan
at-Tirmidhi: 1/6 H. 2
Imaam Tirmidhi
also authenticated his hadeeth at the following places in his Sunan: H. 41, 74,
75, 224, 446, 523, 747, 766, 993, 1091, 1224, 1343, 1482, 1530, 1602, 1619,
1623, 1636, 1656, 1703, 1758, 1801, 1819, 1906, 2023, 2554, 2613, 2614, 2700,
2858, 2877, 2899, 3161, 3391, 3432, 3433, 3454, 3469, 3696, 379.
12-
Imaam Abu Bakr Ibn
Khuzaymah has narrated from him in his Saheeh
[Saheeh Ibn
Khuzaymah: H. 4, 27, 162, 453, 985, 1189, 1531, 1873, 1874, 2113, 2253, 2291,
2511, 2571]
13-
Imaam Ibn Hibbaan
al-Busti mentioned him in Kitaab ath-Thiqaat and said: “He makes mistakes”
[6/417 T. 8369]
Imaam Ibn
Hibbaan also took evidence from him in his Saheeh
[See; Saheeh
Ibn Hibbaan: H. 129, 148, 162, 166, 191, 364, 365, 424, 446, 750, 783, 964,
965, 995, 1021, 1040, 1151, 1161, 1672, 016, 2360…. And many other places]
14-
Imaam Abu Abdullah
al-Haakim said: “Suhayl is one of the pillars of hadeeth; Muslim has
narrated a lot from him in Usool and Shawaahid….”
15-
Imaam Abu Ya’la
al-Khaleeli said: “He is Thiqah”
[Al-Irshaad:
1/217]
16-
Haafidh Ibn Abdil Barr
said: “He is Thiqah”
[Al-Tamheed:
21/236]
17-
Imaam Dhahabi said: “He
is Katheer ul-Hadeeth, Thiqah Famous, Maalik and other Major Scholars narrated
from him”
[Al-Abar:
1/146]
He also said: “He
is al-Imaam al-Muhaddith al-Kabeer as-Saadiq…”
[Siyar A’laam
al-Nabula: 6/170]
Haafidh
Dhahabi also added him in “Man Takallam Feehi Wahuwa Mawthaq”
[1/96 T. 151]
18-
Ibn al-Ammaad
al-Hanbali also said: “He is Katheer ul-Hadeeth, Thiqah Famous, Maalik and
other Major Scholars narrated from him”
[Shadhraat
adh-Dhahab: 2/191]
19-
Haafidh Ibn Hajar
authenticated his hadeeth saying, “Abu Dawood and Nasaa’ee narrated with a
Saheeh chain from Suhayl bin Abi Saalih from his Father…”
[Fath
ul-Baari: 10/196]
Ibn Hajar also
said: “He is Thiqah”
[Lisaan
al-Meezaan: 7/240]
He also said: “He
is Sadooq, his memory got deteriorated at the end; Bukhaari narrated from him
(in his Saheeh) Maqroonan (i.e. with a support of another narrator) and
Ta’leeqan”
[Taqreeb:
2675]
Note:
·
Mughaltaai al-Hanafi
authenticated his hadeeth saying, “Its chain is Saheeh”
[Sharh Ibn Maajah: 1/1449]
·
Zayla’ee al-Hanafi
authenticated his hadeeth saying, “This chain is Saheeh”
[Nasb ur-Raya: 2/384]
Those who criticized
him:
1- Imaam Abdul Azeez bin Muhammad ad-Daraawardi said: “I
mentioned this hadeeth to Suhayl; he said: Rabee’ah has informed me, and he is
Thiqah according to me, that I (myself) have narrated to him, and I do not
remember it”.
Abdul Azeez
said: “Suhayl was afflicted with a defect – some of his memory had weakened
(at the end of his age), and he would forget some of his hadeeth, (therefore)
Suhayl would later narrate (his own hadeeth) through Rabee’ah from himself from
his Father”
[Sunan Abu
Dawood: 3610; Sunan al-Kubra lil Bayhaqi: 10/283 H. 20644, Chain Saheeh]
Similarly,
Sulemaan bin Bilaal said: “I met Suhayl and asked him about this hadeeth
(i.e. Sunan Abu Dawood: 3610), so he replied: ‘I do not know it’, so I said to
him that Rabee’ah has narrated it to me from you. He said: ‘If Rabee’ah has
narrated it to you from me, so you should narrate it from Rabee’ah from me’”
[Sunan Abu
Dawood: 3611; Sunan al-Kubra lil Bayhaqi: 20646, Chain Saheeh]
2- Imaam Yahya ibn Ma’een was asked about Suhayl bin Abi Saalih and
Al-‘Alaa bin Abdur Rahmaan, so he said: “There hadeeth is not Hujjah”
[Taareekh Ibn
Ma’een, narrated by ad-Dauri: 2/243]
He also said: “The
people of hadeeth stay away from the hadeeth of Suhayl bin Abi Saalih”
[Taareekh Ibn
Abi Khaythamah: 2/316 T. 3104]
At another
place, he said: “He is nothing”
[Same]
He also said: “Suhayl
is Da’eef”
[Same]
3- Imaam Abu Haatim ar-Raazi said: “Write his narrations and do
not take evidence from him, and he is more beloved to me than Amr bin Abi Amr;
and he is more beloved to me than ‘Alaa narrating from Abu Hurayrah through his
father”
[Al-Jarh wat
Ta’deel by Ibn Abi Haatim: Vol. 4 T. 1063]
4- Ibn Sa’d narrates from Suhayl’s companions that they said that
when his brother Abbaad died, he suffered from a great shock until he started
narrating from himself
[Tabaqaat Ibn
Sa’d: 1/345]
5- Imaam al-Haakim said: “Then it was said about his narrations
narrated in Iraaq that he erred a lot in them and his memory had gotten weak at
the end of his age”
[Al-Madkhal
Ila as-Saheeh of al-Haakim with reference from Man Takallam Feeh – Tahqeeq of
al-Raheeli: 1/251]
Conclusion:
He is Thiqah, evidence is taken
from him in what he narrated before his Ikhtilaat due to the death of his
Brother; and he got sick in Iraaq. Before taking evidence from his hadeeth, we
must look into it and if he narrated it in Iraaq, then evidence is not taken
from him, wallahu A’lam!
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