Sunan ad-Darimi 188

Translation

✧ Whenever ʿĀmir was asked about something, he would say, “I do not know.” If they insisted, he would say, “I swear to you by Allah, I have no knowledge of it.”

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1. 1
   al-Shaʿbī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), well-known, a virtuous jurist (faqīh fāḍil)d. 103 AH, said by al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Yaḥyā b. Bukayr, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, 104 AH, said by Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, and Ismāʿīl b. Mujālid, and Abū Nuʿaym, and Muḥammad b. ʿImrān al-Bajalī, and ʿUmar b. Shabīb al-Muslī, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Idrīs, 105 AH, said by Isḥāq b. Yaḥyā, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Numayr, or: 106 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, and ʿAmr b. ʿAlī, 107 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, or: 109 AH, said by Ibn Ḥibbān, 110 AH, said by ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Tamīmī
   الشَّعْبِيّثقة ، مشهور ، فقيه فاضل
   في حكم العنعنة
2. 2
   al-Mughīrah b. Miqsam al-Ḍabbī

   Trustworthy (thiqah) and meticulous (mutqin), except that he used to practise concealment (tadlīs), especially from Ibrāhīmd. 132 AH, or: 133 AH, or: 134 AH, or: 136 AH
   مُغِيرَةَثقة متقن إلا أنه كان يدلس ولا سيما عن إبراهيم
   عن
3. 3
   Jarīr

   Trustworthy (thiqah), his book is sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb); it was said that at the end of his life he would err when narrating from memoryd. 187 AH or 188 AH
   جَرِيرٌثقة صحيح الكتاب ، قيل : كان في آخر عمره يهم من حفظه
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Muḥammad b. Ḥumayd

   A ḥāfiẓ, weak (ḍaʿīf), Ibn Maʿīn held a good opinion of himd. 248 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ حُمَيْدٍحافظ ضعيف ، وكان ابن معين حسن الرأي فيه
   أخبرنا
5. 5
   al-Dārimī

   trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil), meticulous (mutqin)d. 254 AH, or 255 AH, also said: 250 AH
   الدارميثقة ، فاضل ، متقن

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