then al-ʿUqaylī said following this ḥadīth: "It has no basis from the ḥadīth of ʿAwf, rather it is narrated from Anas, with an isnād that is not established." Ibn Abī Ḥātim said (1/2/370-371): "I asked my father about him, and he said: He is narrated from." Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in "al-Thiqāt" and said: "He was an extreme Murjiʾī, it is preferable to avoid his ḥadīth due to his fanaticism and dislike for those who adhere to the sunnah." al-Khalīlī said: "He is a well-known truthful person, described as discreet, righteous, and ascetic, and he was a jurist according to the Kufan school." al-Dhahabī included him in "al-Mīzān" and said: "Abū Saʿīd is one of the prominent jurists in Balkh." Then he mentioned some of what was said about him previously, then said: I said: He was a man of knowledge, practice, and devotion; the ruler of Balkh visited him, but he turned away from him." He said in "al-Ḍuʿafāʾ": "The mufti of Balkh, weakened by Ibn Maʿīn." And similarly in "al-Taqrīb" by al-Ḥāfiẓ al-ʿAsqalānī. I said: My heart is not reassured by the criticism of this man, because it is an unexplained criticism, except in the words of Ibn Ḥibbān, but it is clear that he found nothing to criticize him for except being a Murjiʾī, and this cannot be considered a valid criticism according to the verified scholars of ḥadīth. Therefore, we see al-Bukhārī using in his Ṣaḥīḥ some of the Khawārij, Shīʿah, Qadariyyah, and others from the people of desires, because the criterion in narrating ḥadīth is trustworthiness and precision, and it seems that for this reason, al-Ḥāfiẓ did not firmly assert the weakening..