Hadith No: 2
Al-Mizzi - Tahdhib al-Kamal fi Asma' al-Rijal - Book of 'Ayn - Those Named Ali
4154 - Ali ibn Yazid ibn Abi Hilal al-Ilahani, also referred to as al-Hilali
Volume: (21) - Page Number: (178 > 182)
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- Harb ibn Isma'il said: I said to Ahmad ibn Hanbal: "Ali ibn Yazid," to which he replied: "He is a Damascene
seeming to regard him as weak."- Ya'qub ibn Shaybah said: Abdullah ibn Shu'ayb narrated to me, saying: Yahya ibn Ma'in read to me:
"Ali ibn Yazid al-Shami is weak."- He also reported to me from Muhammad ibn Umar, who said: Yahya ibn Ma'in stated:
"Ali ibn Yazid from al-Qasim from Abu Umamah - all of these are weak."- Ya'qub said:
"Ali ibn Yazid is unreliable in his narrations, with many deniable reports."- Al-Ghalabi reported from Yahya ibn Ma'in: "The hadiths of Ubaydullah ibn Zahhr and Ali ibn Yazid from al-Qasim from Abu Umamah
are weak and raised."- Muhammad ibn Yazid al-Mustamli said:
I said to Abi Muthsir: 'What about Ali ibn Yazid?' He replied: 'I know nothing but good. Look at who narrates from him. Ibn Abi al-'Atakah is not one of the scholars of hadith or his peers.'"- Ibrahim ibn Ya'qub al-Jawzajani said:
"I saw several imams denounce the hadiths he narrates through Ubaydullah ibn Zahhr and Ibn Abi al-'Atakah." Then I saw Ja'far ibn al-Zubayr and Bashar ibn Numayr narrating from al-Qasim hadiths similar to those, and al-Qasim was a choice, virtuous individual who met forty of the emigrants and the helpers.
"I suspect that we are being misled regarding Ali ibn Yazid, as Bashar ibn Numayr and Ja'far ibn al-Zubayr are not individuals to be relied upon against anyone among the scholars."- Abu Zur'ah al-Razi said:
"He is not strong."- Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Hatim said: I asked my father about Ali ibn Yazid,
and he replied: "Weak in hadith, his narrations are deniable. If what Ali ibn Yazid narrates from al-Qasim is sound, then one must examine the matter of Ali ibn Yazid."- Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Kunani al-Isbahani said: I said to Abi Hatim: "What do you say about the hadiths of Ali ibn Yazid from al-Qasim from Abu Umamah?"
He replied: 'They are not strong; they are weak.'"- Al-Bukhari said:
"Deniable in hadith and weak."- Al-Tirmidhi and al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Nasr al-Tusi said:
"He is to be considered weak in hadith."- In another place:
"Some scholars have spoken about Ali ibn Yazid and regarded him as weak."- Al-Nasa'i said:
"He is not trustworthy."- He said in another instance:
"Abandoned in hadith."- Abu Sa'id ibn Yunus said:
"There is something to consider in him."- Abu al-Fath al-Azdiy, Abu al-Hasan al-Daraqutni, and Abu Bakr al-Barqani said:
"Abandoned."- Al-Hakim Abu Ahmad said:
"His narrations are diminishing."- Abu Ahmad ibn Adi stated: "Ali ibn Yazid has hadiths and manuscripts, and Ubaydullah ibn Zahhr narrates from Ali ibn Yazid from al-Qasim from Abu Umamah hadiths,
and he himself is a sound individual, except that he narrates from someone weak, which results in issues arising from that weakness."