بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
“The scent of the child is from the scent of Paradise”
ريحُ الولد من ريحِ الجَنَّةِ
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The main route is via Mindal b. ‘Alī who is weak but considered for corroboration:
He was declared weak by Ibn Hajr in al-Taqrīb and al-Bayhaqī in al-Shu’ab.
He was declared weak by Abū Zur’ah, al-Nasā’ī, al-Dāraqutnī [in another narration: “Matrūk”], Ibn Qāni’, Ahmad, Al-Bazzār, Tahāwī, Ibn Qattān, al-‘Irāqī, Ibn Hazm.
Ibn Sa’d said: “there is weakness in him.”
Yahyā ibn Ma’īn in a narration said regarding him and Habbān: “Their hadīth is nothing.” In another narration he said :”his hadīth is written down [i.e. for consideration].
Al-Bukhārī included him in al-Du’afā (the weak narrators). al-Bukhārī said: “Mindal is weak; I do not write down his hadīth.”
al-Jūzajānī said: “Wāhī al-hadīth.”
And al-Hākim Abū Ahmad said: “He is not strong in their view.”
And al-Sājī said: “He is not thiqah; he narrated objectionable reports [manākīr]. And Ibn al-Muthannā told me: ‘ʿAbd al-Rahmān ibn Mahdī did not narrate from him.’”
And Ibn Hibbān said: “He was among those who raise mursal reports and give a connected chain to mawqūf reports from poor memorisation, so he deserved to be abandoned.”
Shaykh Muqbil said: “He has been spoken about and the apparent [view] is that his hadīth falls below hasan.”
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There are also other routes from Ibn ‘Abbās which are very weak, thus not suitable for corroboration.
There is also a route from Āishah which is very weak, thus not suitable for corroboration.
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al-Da’īfah of Al-Albānī #2499. Mu’jam al-Saghīr with Tahqīq of al-Fahdāwī 3/1187. Majma al-Zawāid with Tahqīq of Husayn Salīm 16/533-534. Jamhara Mustakhrajāt Al-Jarh wa al-Taʿdīl 3/408. Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb 4/152-153. Al-Jāmi’ Li-Kutub al-Du’afā #13255. Tahdhīb al-Kamāl 7/223-224. Ithāf al-Khalīl pg. 639.
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