Status of ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib According to Imām al-Ḥākim
Source: Fatāwā Amonpuri by Shaykh Ghulam Mustafa Zaheer Amonpuri
Question:
What is said about ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib?
Answer:
ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib became mukhtaḷiṭ (confused in memory in later life). His narrations before his ikhtiḷāṭ are authentic, but after his confusion they are unreliable.
❀ Imām al-Ḥākim رحمه الله (d. 405H) said:
لم يختلفوا أن أحاديثه القديمة صحيحة وأنه اختلط بآخرة.
“The scholars did not differ that his earlier narrations are authentic, and that he became confused in his later years.”
(al-Madkhal ilā Maʿrifat al-Ṣaḥīḥ min al-Saqīm 2/797)
Source: Fatāwā Amonpuri by Shaykh Ghulam Mustafa Zaheer Amonpuri
Question:
What is said about ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib?
Answer:
ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib became mukhtaḷiṭ (confused in memory in later life). His narrations before his ikhtiḷāṭ are authentic, but after his confusion they are unreliable.
❀ Imām al-Ḥākim رحمه الله (d. 405H) said:
لم يختلفوا أن أحاديثه القديمة صحيحة وأنه اختلط بآخرة.
“The scholars did not differ that his earlier narrations are authentic, and that he became confused in his later years.”
(al-Madkhal ilā Maʿrifat al-Ṣaḥīḥ min al-Saqīm 2/797)
