and Maymūn ibn al-Aṣbagh was narrated from by a group, including al-Nasāʾī and Abū Ḥātim, and Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in "al-Thiqāt," and al-Haythamī said (6/229): "It was narrated by al-Ṭabarānī and its men are trustworthy." It was also recorded by al-Rūyānī in "Musnad" (10/59/1): Abū Bakr informed us, Saʿīd ibn Abī Maryam informed us with it, except that he said: "Shuʿayb ibn Zuraʿah" instead of Musharḥ ibn Hāʿān. Perhaps Bakr ibn ʿAmr heard it from both of them, so he would narrate it sometimes from this one, and sometimes from that one. And Shuʿayb ibn Zuraʿah was mentioned by Ibn Abī Ḥātim (2/1/346) from the narration of Abū Qubayl also from him. He did not mention any criticism or endorsement about him.

"There will come upon the people years of deceit in which the liar will be believed, and the truthful will be disbelieved, and the treacherous will be trusted, and the trustworthy will be deemed treacherous, and the insignificant will speak." It was said: What is the insignificant? He said: A worthless man who speaks on public affairs." It was recorded by Ibn Mājah (4042), al-Ḥākim (4/465, 512), Aḥmad (2/291), and al-Kharāʾiṭī in "Makārim al-Akhlāq" (p. 30) through the route of ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Qudāmah al-Jumaḥī from Isḥāq ibn Abī al-Furāt from al-Maqburī from Abū Hurayrah who said: The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: and he mentioned it. Al-Ḥākim said: "Its isnād is authentic." Al-Dhahabī agreed with him. This is what they said, and it is astonishing, especially from al-Dhahabī, for he mentioned Ibn Qudāmah in "al-Mīzān," and transmitted his weakening by a group, and said in "al-Ḍuʿafāʾ": "Abū Ḥātim and others said: He is not strong."