" i said: Khālid is a fabricator." i said: however, he was not the only one to narrate it, as will be shown. al-ʿUqaylī said: "there is no original ḥadīth from al-Thawrī, and Muḥammad ibn Kathīr al-Ṣanʿānī followed him, and perhaps he took it from him and concealed it, because the one well-known for it is this Khālid." i said: this corroboration was produced by al-Khulāʿī in "al-Fawāʾid" (18/67/1) and Ibn ʿAdī, who said: "I do not know what to say about Ibn Kathīr's narration from al-Thawrī for this ḥadīth, for Ibn Kathīr is reliable, but this ḥadīth from al-Thawrī is objectionable." Abū Qatādah also followed him, saying: Sufyān narrated to us from it. It was produced by Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Maqdisī in "al-Muntaqá min Ḥadīth Abī ʿAlī al-Awqī" (3/2). i said: but Abū Qatādah—who is ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wāqid al-Ḥarrānī—was said by al-Ḥāfiẓ: "abandoned, and Aḥmad used to praise him, saying: perhaps he grew old and became confused, and he used to conceal." i said: it is strongly possible that he received it from Khālid ibn ʿAmr and then concealed it from him, as Ibn ʿAdī said in the corroboration of Ibn Kathīr. but his statement regarding Ibn Kathīr, that he is reliable, is questionable, as a group of imams, including Imām Aḥmad, weakened him, as narrated by Ibn ʿAdī himself in his biography in "al-Kāmil" (370/2), then concluded it by saying: "he has ḥadīths that no one else corroborates him on," so how can someone like him be considered reliable? it appears that he confused him with Muḥammad ibn Kathīr al-ʿAbdī because