" Abū Ḥātim said: 'His ḥadīth is rejected.' " And al-Ḥāfiẓ said in "al-Taqrīb": "Weak."

"Whoever wishes to love Allāh and His Messenger, let him read in the (muṣḥaf)." It was recorded by Ibn Shāhīn in "al-Targhīb" (p. 288/1), Ibn ʿAdī (111/2), and Abū Nuʿaym in "al-Ḥilyah" (7/209), and from him by al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar in "Natāʾij al-Afkār" (1/231/2) from Ibrāhīm ibn Jābir, who narrated to us from al-Ḥurr ibn Mālik, who narrated to us from Shuʿbah, from Abū Isḥāq, from Abū al-Aḥwaṣ, from ʿAbdullāh in a marfūʿ manner. Ibn ʿAdī said: "No one narrated it from Shuʿbah except al-Ḥurr, and he narrates few ḥadīths, and this from Shuʿbah is rejected." Al-Ḥāfiẓ commented afterwards: "I said: this agrees with what Muslim said in the introduction to his 'Ṣaḥīḥ', where he said: 'The sign of a rejected ḥadīth from a narrator is that he attributes to someone like al-Zuhrī, who has many ḥadīths and many narrators from him, something that none of them have.'" Al-Dhahabī said in his biography: "He came with a false report and said: ..." He mentioned it and said: "The muṣḥafs were only compiled after the Prophet ﷺ." Al-Ḥāfiẓ refuted it by saying: "This reasoning is weak, for in the 'Ṣaḥīḥayn': 'The Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) forbade traveling...'"