Hadith No: 2
Al-Mizzi - Tahdhib al-Kamal fi Asma' al-Rijal
Volume: (18) - Page Number: (76 77)
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3421 - Abd al-Salam ibn Salih ibn Sulayman ibn Ayyub ibn Maysera al-Qurashi, Abu al-Salt al-Harawi, mawla of Abd al-Rahman ibn Samura, lived in Nisapur and traveled for hadith to Basra, Kufa, the Hijaz, and Yemen. He was a servant of Ali ibn Musa al-Ridha, an educated man, jurisprudent, and scholar .... Abu Bakr ibn Thabit al-Hafiz narrated to us, saying: Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rizq narrated to us, saying: Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Mukarram al-Qadi narrated to us, saying: Al-Qasim ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Anbari narrated to us, saying: Abu al-Salt al-Harawi narrated to us, saying: Abu Muawiya narrated to us from al-A'mash, from Mujahid
from Ibn Abbas, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his holy progeny) said, "I am the city of knowledge, and Ali is its gate. Whoever wants knowledge should come to his gate." Al-Qasim said: I asked Yahya ibn Ma'in about this hadith, and he said: It is authentic. Abu Bakr ibn Thabit al-Hafiz said: He meant that it is authentic as a narration from Abu Muawiya and is not false, as it has been reported by others from him. He said: We had not heard of this. When told, he replied that this was what could be denied, saying: Not this, as we had not heard of it. One incident was narrated from Abd al-Razzaq that we do not know and have not heard. It was said to Abu Abdullah: There were indeed some unsatisfactory hadiths with Abd al-Razzaq. He responded: I did not hear anything from them. Umar ibn al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Malik narrated from his father: I asked Yahya ibn Ma'in about Abu al-Salt al-Harawi, and he said: He is trustworthy, honest, but he has a tendency towards Shiism.