وَلَا أَحْسِبُ كَثِيرًا مِمَّنْ يُعَرِّجُ مِنَ النَّاسِ ، عَلَى مَا وَصَفْنَا مِنْ هَذِهِ الأَحَادِيثِ الضِّعَافِ ، وَالأَسَانِيدِ الْمَجْهُولَةِ ، وَيَعْتَدُّ بِرِوَايَتِهَا بَعْدَ مَعْرِفَتِهِ بِمَا فِيهَا مِنَ التَّوَهُّنِ ، وَالضَّعْفِ ، إِلَّا أَنَّ الَّذِي يَحْمِلُهُ عَلَى رِوَايَتِهَا ، وَالِاعْتِدَادِ بِهَا إِرَادَةُ التَّكَثُّرِ بِذَلِكَ عِنْدَ الْعَوَامِّ ، وَلِأَنْ يُقَالَ : مَا أَكْثَرَ مَا جَمَعَ فُلَانٌ مِنَ الْحَدِيثِ ، وَأَلَّفَ مِنَ الْعَدَدِ ، وَمَنْ ذَهَبَ فِي الْعِلْمِ هَذَا الْمَذْهَبَ ، وَسَلَكَ هَذَا الطَّرِيقَ ، فَلَا نَصِيبَ لَهُ فِيهِ ، وَكَانَ بِأَنْ يُسَمَّى جَاهِلًا أَوْلَى مَنْ أَنْ يُنْسَبَ إِلَى عِلْمٍ
And I do not think that many of those among the people who turn to what we have described of these weak hadiths and unknown chains, and rely on narrating them after knowing what they contain of weakness and frailty, do so except that what drives them to narrate and rely on them is the desire to increase their number before the common people, and so that it may be said: How much so-and-so has collected of hadith and compiled of numbers. And whoever takes this approach in knowledge and follows this path, he has no share in it, and it is more fitting for him to be called ignorant than to be attributed to knowledge.