2152 - ‘Amr ibn Rāfi‘ narrated to us, ‘Amr ibn Hārūn narrated to us, from Hammām, from Farqad al-Sabakhī, from Yazīd ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn al-Shikhkhīr, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allāh (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “The most lying of people are the dyers and the goldsmiths.”

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It was also recorded in extended form by Mālik in *al-Muwaṭṭa’* 2/966, and from his transmission by al-Bukhārī (2105), (5181), and (5961), and Muslim (2107).
It is also in *Musnad Aḥmad* (26090) and *Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Ḥibbān* (5845).
See the complete citation in *Musnad Aḥmad*.

(1) Its chain is weak due to the weakness of Farqad al-Sabakhī, who is Ibn Ya‘qūb. Hammām is Ibn Yaḥyā al-‘Awdhī.
It was also recorded by Abū Dāwūd al-Ṭayālisī in his *Musnad* (2574), Aḥmad in *al-Musnad* (7920) and in *al-‘Ilal* (1741), ‘Abd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal in his additions to *al-‘Ilal* (1740), Ibn al-A‘rābī in his *Mu‘jam* (808), Ibn Ḥibbān in *al-Majrūḥīn* 2/205 and 313, Ibn ‘Adī in *al-Kāmil* 6/2288, Tammām al-Rāzī in his *Fawā’id* (667) and (668), al-Bayhaqī 15/249, al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī in his *Tārīkh* 14/216, and Ibn al-Jawzī in *al-‘Ilal al-Mutanāhiyah* (994) and (996), via the chain of Hammām ibn Yaḥyā, with this isnād.
It was also recorded by Aḥmad in *al-‘Ilal* (1738) from Abū ‘Ubaydah al-Ḥaddād, from Hammām, from Farqad, raising it (to the Prophet).
It was also recorded by Tammām al-Rāzī (666), and from his transmission Ibn ‘Asākir in *Tārīkh Dimashq* 15/folio 693, from Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Sharrābī al-Rummānī al-Baghdādī, from Ibrāhīm ibn Hāshim al-Baghawī, from Hudbah ibn Khālid, from Abū ‘Awānah al-Yashkurī; and Ibn Ḥibbān in *al-Majrūḥīn* 2/313, Ibn ‘Adī in *al-Kāmil* 6/2295, al-Khaṭīb in his *Tārīkh* 3/438, and Ibn al-Jawzī in *al-‘Ilal* (995), from the chain of Muḥammad ibn Yūnus al-Kudaymī, from Abū Nu‘aym al-Faḍl ibn Dukayn — both of them (Abū ‘Awānah and Abū Nu‘aym) from al-A‘mash, =