Ismaa'eel bin Abaan al-Ghanawi al-Aamri, Abu Ishaaq al-Koofi al-Khayyaat

Name:

إِسْمَاعِيل بن أبان الغنوي العامري، أَبُو إِسْحَاق الكوفي الخياط

Ismaa’eel bin Abaan al-Ghanawi al-Aamri, Abu Ishaaq al-Koofi al-Khayyaat

Tabaqah: 9 – From the Minor Taba Taabi’een

Death: 210 H

Teachers: Ismaa’eel bin Abi Khaalid, Al-Hasan bin Ammaarah, Zakariyyah bin Abi Zaa’idah, Sufyaan ath-Thawree, Sulemaan al-A’mash, Abdul Malik bin Abdul Azeez bin Jurayj, Abu Khaalid Amr bin Khaalid al-Waasiti, Muhammad bin Ajlaan, Mis’ar bin Kidaam, Hishaam bin Urwah and others.

Students: Ibraaheem bin Sa’eed al-Johari, Ibraaheem bin Sulemaan al-Khazzaaz, Ahmed bin Haazim bin Abi Gharzah, Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Yazeed al-Mu’addab, Ahmed bin Abdul A’la ash-Shaybaani, Ahmed bin Yahya bin Zakariyyah as-Soofi, Ishaaq bin Ibraaheem al-Baghawi, Sulemaan bin Dawood al-Shaazkooni, Abdullah bin al-Hasan al-Haashmi, Abdur Rahmaan as-Siraaj, Ya’qoob bin Shaybah and others.

Status: Matrook, Kadh-dhaab, Fabricator

Opinions of Ahl ul-Jarh wat Ta’deel:

1-    Imaam Ahmed bin Hanbal said: “...Thus we abandoned him”

[Al-Ilal by Ahmed: 3/211]

2-    Imaam Yahya ibn Ma’een said: “He fabricated a hadeeth from Fitr from Abu at-Tufayl from Ali, who said: The seventh son from the children of Abbaas…”

[Al-Jarh wat Ta’deel: 2/160]

Imaam Ibn Ma’een also said: “He fabricated ahaadeeth on Sufyaan which were not his”

[Al-Majroheen by Ibn Hibbaan: 1/128, Chain Saheeh]

3-    Imaam Bukhaari said: “He is Matrook, Ahmed and the people have abandoned him”

[Al-Taareekh al-Kabeer by al-Bukhaari: 1093, Al-Awsat by al-Bukhaari: 2/308, Taareekh Baghdaad: 6/242]

4-    Imaam Muslim said: “He is Matrook ul-Hadeeth”

[Al-Kunaa wal Asmaa by Muslim: 1/44]

5-    Imaam Abu Zur’ah ar-Raazi said: “Abandon his hadeeth”

[Al-Jarh wat Ta’deel: 2/160]

6-    Imaam Abu Haatim ar-Raazi said: “He is Matrook ul-Hadeeth, he is Kadh-dhaab (A Liar)”

[Al-Jarh wat Ta’deel by Ibn Abi Haatim: 2/160]

7-    Imaam an-Nasaa’ee said: “He is not Thiqah”

[Ad-Du’afa wal Matrokeen: 284]

8-    Imaam Abu al-Hasan al-Ijlee said: “He is Da’eef ul-Hadeeth… we met him but we did not write anything from him”

[Thiqaat by al-Ijlee: 1/64]

9-    Imaam Ibraaheem bin Ya’qoob al-Juzjaani said: “Lie is apparent in him”

[Ahwaal ur-Rijaal by al-Juzjaani: P. 17-18]

10-          Imaam Ibn Hibbaan mentioned him in al-Majroheen and said: “He used to fabricate hadeeth on the Thiqah narrators”

[Al-Majroheen by Ibn Hibbaan: 1/128]

11-          Imaam ad-Daaraqutni mentioned him in ad-Du’afa

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He also said: “He is Da’eef”

[Sunan ad-Daaraqutni: 1/329]

In his Kitaab al-Jarh wat Ta’deel, he said: “He is Matrook ul-Hadeeth”

[Ikmaal Tahdheeb al-Kamaal: 2/141, also see, Tahdheeb at-Tahdheeb]

12-          Imaam Ibn Adee said: “His normal narrations are not followed whether with regard to Isnaad or Matn”

[Al-Kaamil: 1/503]

13-          Imaam Khateeb al-Baghdaadi said: “He came to Baghdaad and narrated in it ahaadeeth; and people found out the lies in them, thus they abstained from hearing narrations from him, and they discarded the narrations narrated from him”

[Taareekh Baghdaad: 6/240]

14-          Imaam Abu al-Hajjaaj al-Mizzi said: “There is a unanimous consensus on his weakness”

[Tahdheeb al-Kamaal by al-Mizzi: 3/12]

15-          Shaykh ul-Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah said: “He is Kadh-dhaab (a Liar)”

[Majmoo al-Fatawa: 1/262]

16-          Imaam Dhahabi said: “He is Matrook”

[Al-Muqtani: 1/66; Deewaan ad-Du’afa: 1/30]

Imaam Dhahabi also said: “He is Kadh-dhaab (A Liar)”

[Siyar A’laam al-Nabula: 10/348]

17-          Haafidh Ibn Hajar al-Asqalaani said: “He is Matrook, he is accused of fabricating (ahaadeeth)”

[Taqreeb: 411]

18-          Haafidh al-Haythami said: “He is Matrook”

[Majma az-Zawaaid: 2/152]