al-Fadl bin Abi Talb Akhw الفضل بن أبي طالب · Introduction

‘I was at his door and Sufyān was with about him. So he informed me that he was a liar.’

‘I entered upon Ghālib bin Ubayd Allah so he began dictating to me ‘Mak’hūl narrated to me this’ and ‘Mak’hūl narrated to me that’. So he prepared to answer the call of nature and stood up, then I looked in his notebook and in it was ‘Abān narrated to me, on authority of Anas’ and ‘Abān on authority of so-and-so’. So I abandoned ’. I heard al-Hasan bin Alī al-Hulwānī saying: ‘I saw in one of the books of Affān…

‘Al-Barā’ .

‘Yahyā bin Ma’īn narrated to me, Hajjāj narrated to us, Ibn Abī Dhi’b narrated to us on authority of Shurahbīl bin Sa’d , and he was imputed ’.

‘Do not take from my brother ’.