What Do Scholars Say About the Hadith Narrator Abū al-Zinād?
Source: Fatāwā Amonpuri by Shaykh Ghulam Mustafa Zaheer Amonpuri
Question:
What do scholars say about the hadith narrator Abū al-Zinād?
Answer:
Abū al-Zinād ʿAbdullāh ibn Dhakwān is thiqa (trustworthy).
❀ Imām Ḥāfiẓ al-Dhahabī رحمه الله (d. 748H) said:
انعقد الإجماع على توثيق أبى الزناد
“There is consensus on the trustworthiness of Abū al-Zinād.”
(Tārīkh al-Islām: 3/677)
