Muhammad ibn Isa al-Tirmidhi (Arabic: محمد بن عيسى الترمذي, romanized: Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā al-Tirmidhī; 824 – 9 October 892 CE / 209–279 AH), commonly known as Imam al-Tirmidhi or Abū ʿĪsā al-Tirmidhī, was a Muslim scholar and hadith collector from Termez in historical Greater Khorasan, in present-…
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Al-Tirmidhi's Jāmiʿ, sometimes also designated a Ṣaḥīḥ, contains traditions concerning Islamic law as well as substantial material on religion and theology. In compiling it, he paid particular attention both to the reliability of the isnād, or chain of transmission, and to the content of individual traditions. Consequently, the collection is shorter and less repetitive than the corresponding collections of al-Bukhārī and Muslim.1 He also wrote the Shamāʾil al-Muḥammadiyya, commonly known as Shamāʾil al-Tirmidhī, a collection of hadith concerning the person and character of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Al-Tirmidhi was also well versed in Arabic grammar and preferred the grammatical school of Kufa to that of Basra, in part because the Kufan tradition preserved Arabic poetry as a primary linguistic source. Very little is otherwise known about his life, except that he was either born blind or became blind later in life.
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Al-Tirmidhi's given name (ism) was "Muhammad" while his kunya was "Abu `Isa" ("father of `Isa"). His genealogy is uncertain; his nasab (patronymic) has variously been given as:
Muḥammad ibn ‛Īsá ibn Sawrah (محمد بن عيسى بن سورة)3
Muḥammad ibn ‛Īsá ibn Sawrah ibn Mūsá ibn aḍ-Ḍaḥḥāk (محمد بن عيسى بن سورة بن موسى بن الضحاك)4567
Muḥammad ibn ‛Īsá ibn Sawrah ibn Shaddād (محمد بن عيسى بن سورة بن شداد)8
Muḥammad ibn ‛Īsá ibn Sawrah ibn Shaddād ibn aḍ-Ḍaḥḥāk (محمد بن عيسى بن سورة بن شداد بن الضحاك)9
Muḥammad ibn ‛Īsá ibn Sawrah ibn Shaddād ibn ‛Īsá (محمد بن عيسى بن سورة بن شداد بن عيسى)7
Muḥammad ibn ‛Īsá ibn Yazīd ibn Sawrah ibn as-Sakan (محمد بن عيسى بن يزيد بن سورة بن السكن)457
Muḥammad ibn ‛Īsá ibn Sahl (محمد بن عيسى بن سهل)1011
Muḥammad ibn ‛Īsá ibn Sahl ibn Sawrah (محمد بن عيسى بن سهل بن سورة)12
Muhammad ibn 'Isa ibn Sawra ibn Shaddad ibn al-Dahhak al-Sulami al-Bughi al-Tirmidhi13
He was also known by the laqab "ad-Darir" ("the Blind"). It has been said that he was born blind, but the majority of scholars agree that he became blind later in his life.414
At-Tirmidhi's grandfather was originally from Marw (Persian: Merv), but moved to Tirmidh.4 According to Britannica Online, he was an Arab.15 According to S.H. Nasr and M. Mutahhari in The Cambridge History of Iran, Al-Tirmidhi was of Persian ethnicity.16 His uncle was the famous Sufi Abu Bakr al-Warraq.17 Al-Warraq was the teacher of Al-Hakim al-Samarqandi, a known associate of the famous theologian Abu Mansur Al-Maturidi.
Birth
Muhammad ibn `Isa at-Tirmidhi was born during the reign of the Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun. His year of birth has been reported as 209 AH (824/825).181920Adh-Dhahabi only states that at-Tirmidhi was born near the year 210 AH (825/826),4 thus some sources give his year of birth as 210 AH.321 Some sources indicate that he was born in Mecca (Siddiqi says he was born in Mecca in 206 AH (821/822))22 while others say he was born in Tirmidh (Persian: Termez), in what is now southern Uzbekistan.18 The stronger opinion is that he was born in Tirmidh.4 Specifically, he was born in one of its suburbs, the village of Bugh (hence the nisbats "at-Tirmidhi" and "al-Bughi").19212324
Hadith studies
At-Tirmidhi began the study of hadith at the age of 20. From the year 235 AH (849/850) he traveled widely in Khurasan, Iraq, and the Hijaz in order to collect hadith.389 His teachers and those he narrated from included:
At the time, Khurasan, at-Tirmidhi's native land, was a major center of learning, being home to a large number of muhaddiths. Other major centers of learning visited by at-Tirmidhi were the Iraqi cities of Kufa and Basra. At-Tirmidhi reported hadith from 42 Kufan teachers. In his Jami`, he used more reports from Kufan teachers than from teachers of any other town.14
At-Tirmidhi was a pupil of al-Bukhari, who was based in Khurasan. Adh-Dhahabi wrote, "His knowledge of hadith came from al-Bukhari."18 At-Tirmidhi mentioned al-Bukhari's name 114 times in his Jami`. He used al-Bukhari's Kitab at-Tarikh as a source when mentioning discrepancies in the text of a hadith or its transmitters, and praised al-Bukhari as being the most knowledgeable person in Iraq or Khurasan in the science of discrepancies of hadith. When mentioning the rulings of jurists, he followed al-Bukhari's practice of not mentioning the name of Abu Hanifah. Because he never received a reliable chain of narrators to mention Abu Hanifa's decrees, he would instead attribute them to "some people of Kufa."14 Al-Bukhari held at-Tirmidhi in high regard as well. He is reported to have told at-Tirmidhi, "I have profited more from you than you have from me," and in his Sahih he narrated two hadith from at-Tirmidhi.1418
At-Tirmidhi also narrated some hadiths from Abu Dawud, and one from Muslim.14 Muslim also narrated one hadith from at-Tirmidhi in his own Sahih.18
A.J. Wensinck mentions Ahmad ibn Hanbal as among at-Tirmidhi's teachers.814 However, Hoosen states that according to the most reliable sources, at-Tirmidhi never went to Baghdad, nor did he attend any lectures of Ahmad ibn Hanbal. Furthermore, at-Tirmidhi never directly narrates from Ahmad ibn Hanbal in his Jami`.14
Several of at-Tirmidhi's teachers also taught al-Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Dawud, Ibn Majah, and an-Nasa'i.
Writings
Al-Jami' al-Mukhtasar min as-Sunan 'an Rasul Allah, known as Jami' at-Tirmidhi
He is also reported to have a work on Islamic history and an exegesis of the Qur’an, but these are extinct.25
Accusation of heresy
It is argued that al-Tirmidhi was accused of being a Jahmi heretic and was harshly criticized by some Hanbali followers, including Abu Bakr al-Khallal (d. 311/923) in his Kitab al-Sunna (Book of the Prophetic Tradition), because he rejected a narration attributed to Mujahid ibn Jabr concerning the explanation of the verse 79 from Surat al-Isra' in the Qur'an about the praiseworthy station of Muhammad known as "al-Maqam al-Mahmud", describing it as a historical example of fanaticism.262728
The verse is: "And from [part of] the night, pray29 with it [i.e., recitation of the Qur’ān] as additional [worship] for you; it is expected that30 your Lord will resurrect you to a praised station."31[Quran 17:79 -Sahih International]
The Hanbalites interpreted the Praiseworthy Station as the seating of Muhammad on the Throne next to Allah, despite the controversy between those who render it weak and those who render it reliable.3233
However, the context of the historical sources of the incident allow for the possibility that this was not the author of the Sunan al-Tirmidhi; rather, he was another person who lived in Baghdad,34 sharing the same nisba (as many others, like al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi), based on the distinct attributes mentioned, such as obscurity in name and scholarship history, his abuse of the teachers of the author of the Sunan al-Tirmidhi and the hadith narrators33, and his different theology353637, which seem to contradict with his traits38.
Death
At-Tirmidhi became blind in the last two years of his life, according to adh-Dhahabi.9 His blindness is said to have been the consequence of excessive weeping, either due to fear of God or over the death of al-Bukhari.3491418
He died on Monday night, 13 Rajab 279 AH (Sunday night, 8 October 892)39 in Bugh.6914
At-Tirmidhi is buried on the outskirts of Sherobod, 60 kilometers north of Termez in Uzbekistan. In Termez he is locally known as Abu Isa at-Termezi or "Termez Ota" ("Father of Termez").24
"Sibawayh, His Kitab, and the Schools of Basra and Kufa." In Changing Traditions: Al-Mubarrad's Refutation of Sībawayh and the Subsequent Reception of the Kitāb, p. 12. Vol. 23, Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics. Ed. Monique Bernards. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 1997. ISBN 9789004105959 ↩
Juynboll, G.H.A. (24 April 2012). "al-Tirmidhī". Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Brill Online. Archived from the original on 2016-09-21. Retrieved 2016-09-16. ↩↩2↩3↩4↩5
Abdul Mawjood, Salahuddin ʻAli (2007). The Biography of Imām at-Tirmidhī. Translated by Abu Bakr ibn Nasir (1st ed.). Riyadh: Darussalam. ISBN 978-9960983691. ↩↩2↩3↩4↩5↩6↩7
Wensinck, A.J. (1993). "al-Tirmidhī". Encyclopaedia of Islam, First Edition (1913-1936). Vol. 8. Leiden: E. J. Brill. pp. 796–797. ISBN 9004097961. Archived from the original on 2016-05-12. Retrieved 2015-10-19. ↩↩2↩3↩4↩5
Rushdī Abū Shabānah ʻAlī al-Rashīdī (2007). التضامن الدولي في النظام الإسلامي والنظم الوضعية : دراسة مقارنة (al-Taḍāmun al-dawlī fī al-niẓām al-Islāmī wa-al-nuẓum al-waḍʻīyah : dirāsah muqāranah) (1st ed.). Mansoura, Egypt: Dār al-Yaqīn. ISBN 9789773362409. ↩
Hoosen, Abdool Kader (1990). Imam Tirmidhi's contribution towards Hadith (1st ed.). Newcastle, South Africa: A.K. Hoosen. ISBN 9780620153140. ↩↩2↩3↩4↩5↩6↩7↩8↩9↩10↩11↩12↩13↩14↩15↩16
Banuri, Muhammad Yusuf (April 1957). "الترمذي صاحب الجامع في السنن (al-Tirmidhī ṣaḥib al-jāmi' fī al-sunan)". Majallat Al-Majmaʻ Al-ʻIlmī Al-ʻArabīyah (in Arabic). 32. Damascus: 308. Cited by Hoosen, Abdool Kader (1990). Imam Tirmidhi's contribution towards Hadith (1st ed.). Newcastle, South Africa: A.K. Hoosen. ISBN 9780620153140. ↩↩2
Wheeler, Brannon M., ed. (2002). "Glossary of Interpreters and Transmitters". Prophets in the Quran: An Introduction to the Quran and Muslim Exegesis. New York: Continuum. p. 358. ISBN 0826449565. Archived from the original on 2016-07-23. Retrieved 2015-10-19. ↩↩2
Siddiqi, Muhammad Zubayr. Hadith Literature: Its Origin, Development & Special Features. p. 64. ↩↩2↩3↩4
Adamec, Ludwig W. (2009). Historical Dictionary of Islam (2nd ed.). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. p. 307. ISBN 9780810861619. Archived from the original on 2016-05-15. Retrieved 2015-10-19. ↩
Abu Bakr al-Khallal. "Kitab al-Sunna (The Book of the Sunna)". Archived from the original on 2022-07-08. Retrieved 2020-09-25. فقد كان أحدث هذا الترمذي المبتدع ببلدنا ما اتصل بنا أنه حدث ببلدكم، وهذا أمر قد كان اضمحل وأخمله الله، وأخمل أهله وقائله، وليس بموجود في الناس، قد سلب عقله، أخزاه الله وأخزى أشياعه، وقد كان الشيوخ سئلوا عنه في حياة أبي بكر رحمه الله ومحدثي بغداد والكوفة وغير ذلك، فلم يكن منهم أحد إلا أنكره، وكره من أمره ما كتبنا به إليكم لتقفوا عليه، فأما ما قال العباس بن محمد الدوري عند سؤالهم إياه عنه ورده حديث مجاهد: ذكر أن هذا الترمذي الذي رد حديث مجاهد ما رآه قط عند محدث، ولا يعرفه بالطلب، وإن هذا الحديث لا ينكره إلا مبتدع جهمي، فنحن نسأل الله العافية من بدعته وضلالته، فما أعظم ما جاء به هذا من الضلالة والبدع، عمد إلى حديث فيه فضيلة للنبي صلى الله عليه وسلم فأراد أن يزيله ويتكلم في من رواه، وقد قال النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم: « لا تزال طائفة من أمتي على الحق، لا يضرهم من ناوأهم » ونحن نحذر عن هذا الرجل أن تستمعوا منه، وممن قال بقوله، أو تصدقوهم في شيء، فإن السنة عندنا إحياء ذكر هذا الحديث، وما أشبهه مما ترده الجهمية ↩
Al-Tirmidhi's Jāmiʿ, sometimes also designated a Ṣaḥīḥ, contains traditions concerning Islamic law as well as substantial material on religion and theology. In compiling it, he paid particular attention both to the reliability of the isnād, or chain of transmission, and to the content of individual traditions. Consequently, the collection is shorter and less repetitive than the corresponding collections of al-Bukhārī and Muslim.1 He also wrote the Shamāʾil al-Muḥammadiyya, commonly known as Shamāʾil al-Tirmidhī, a collection of hadith concerning the person and character of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Al-Tirmidhi was also well versed in Arabic grammar and preferred the grammatical school of to that of , in part because the Kufan tradition preserved as a primary linguistic source. Very little is otherwise known about his life, except that he was either born blind or became blind later in life.
Al-Tirmidhi's given name (ism) was "Muhammad" while his kunya was "Abu `Isa" ("father of `Isa"). His genealogy is uncertain; his nasab (patronymic) has variously been given as:
Muḥammad ibn ‛Īsá ibn Sawrah (محمد بن عيسى بن سورة)3
Muḥammad ibn ‛Īsá ibn Sawrah ibn Mūsá ibn aḍ-Ḍaḥḥāk (محمد بن عيسى بن سورة بن موسى بن الضحاك)4567
Muḥammad ibn ‛Īsá ibn Sawrah ibn Shaddād (محمد بن عيسى بن سورة بن شداد)8
Muḥammad ibn ‛Īsá ibn Sawrah ibn Shaddād ibn aḍ-Ḍaḥḥāk (محمد بن عيسى بن سورة بن شداد بن الضحاك)9
Muḥammad ibn ‛Īsá ibn Sawrah ibn Shaddād ibn ‛Īsá (محمد بن عيسى بن سورة بن شداد بن عيسى)7
Muḥammad ibn ‛Īsá ibn Yazīd ibn Sawrah ibn as-Sakan (محمد بن عيسى بن يزيد بن سورة بن السكن)457
Muḥammad ibn ‛Īsá ibn Sahl (محمد بن عيسى بن سهل)1011
Muḥammad ibn ‛Īsá ibn Sahl ibn Sawrah (محمد بن عيسى بن سهل بن سورة)12
Muhammad ibn 'Isa ibn Sawra ibn Shaddad ibn al-Dahhak al-Sulami al-Bughi al-Tirmidhi13
He was also known by the laqab "ad-Darir" ("the Blind"). It has been said that he was born blind, but the majority of scholars agree that he became blind later in his life.414
At-Tirmidhi's grandfather was originally from Marw (Persian: Merv), but moved to Tirmidh.4 According to Britannica Online, he was an Arab.15 According to S.H. Nasr and M. Mutahhari in The Cambridge History of Iran, Al-Tirmidhi was of Persian ethnicity.16 His uncle was the famous Sufi Abu Bakr al-Warraq.17 Al-Warraq was the teacher of Al-Hakim al-Samarqandi, a known associate of the famous theologian Abu Mansur Al-Maturidi.
Birth
Muhammad ibn `Isa at-Tirmidhi was born during the reign of the Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun. His year of birth has been reported as 209 AH (824/825).181920Adh-Dhahabi only states that at-Tirmidhi was born near the year 210 AH (825/826),4 thus some sources give his year of birth as 210 AH.321 Some sources indicate that he was born in Mecca (Siddiqi says he was born in Mecca in 206 AH (821/822))22 while others say he was born in Tirmidh (Persian: Termez), in what is now southern Uzbekistan.18 The stronger opinion is that he was born in Tirmidh.4 Specifically, he was born in one of its suburbs, the village of Bugh (hence the nisbats "at-Tirmidhi" and "al-Bughi").19212324
Hadith studies
At-Tirmidhi began the study of hadith at the age of 20. From the year 235 AH (849/850) he traveled widely in Khurasan, Iraq, and the Hijaz in order to collect hadith.389 His teachers and those he narrated from included:
At the time, Khurasan, at-Tirmidhi's native land, was a major center of learning, being home to a large number of muhaddiths. Other major centers of learning visited by at-Tirmidhi were the Iraqi cities of Kufa and Basra. At-Tirmidhi reported hadith from 42 Kufan teachers. In his Jami`, he used more reports from Kufan teachers than from teachers of any other town.14
At-Tirmidhi was a pupil of al-Bukhari, who was based in Khurasan. Adh-Dhahabi wrote, "His knowledge of hadith came from al-Bukhari."18 At-Tirmidhi mentioned al-Bukhari's name 114 times in his Jami`. He used al-Bukhari's Kitab at-Tarikh as a source when mentioning discrepancies in the text of a hadith or its transmitters, and praised al-Bukhari as being the most knowledgeable person in Iraq or Khurasan in the science of discrepancies of hadith. When mentioning the rulings of jurists, he followed al-Bukhari's practice of not mentioning the name of Abu Hanifah. Because he never received a reliable chain of narrators to mention Abu Hanifa's decrees, he would instead attribute them to "some people of Kufa."14 Al-Bukhari held at-Tirmidhi in high regard as well. He is reported to have told at-Tirmidhi, "I have profited more from you than you have from me," and in his Sahih he narrated two hadith from at-Tirmidhi.1418
At-Tirmidhi also narrated some hadiths from Abu Dawud, and one from Muslim.14 Muslim also narrated one hadith from at-Tirmidhi in his own Sahih.18
A.J. Wensinck mentions Ahmad ibn Hanbal as among at-Tirmidhi's teachers.814 However, Hoosen states that according to the most reliable sources, at-Tirmidhi never went to Baghdad, nor did he attend any lectures of Ahmad ibn Hanbal. Furthermore, at-Tirmidhi never directly narrates from Ahmad ibn Hanbal in his Jami`.14
Several of at-Tirmidhi's teachers also taught al-Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Dawud, Ibn Majah, and an-Nasa'i.
Writings
Al-Jami' al-Mukhtasar min as-Sunan 'an Rasul Allah, known as Jami' at-Tirmidhi
He is also reported to have a work on Islamic history and an exegesis of the Qur’an, but these are extinct.25
Accusation of heresy
It is argued that al-Tirmidhi was accused of being a Jahmi heretic and was harshly criticized by some Hanbali followers, including Abu Bakr al-Khallal (d. 311/923) in his Kitab al-Sunna (Book of the Prophetic Tradition), because he rejected a narration attributed to Mujahid ibn Jabr concerning the explanation of the verse 79 from Surat al-Isra' in the Qur'an about the praiseworthy station of Muhammad known as "al-Maqam al-Mahmud", describing it as a historical example of fanaticism.262728
The verse is: "And from [part of] the night, pray29 with it [i.e., recitation of the Qur’ān] as additional [worship] for you; it is expected that30 your Lord will resurrect you to a praised station."31[Quran 17:79 -Sahih International]
The Hanbalites interpreted the Praiseworthy Station as the seating of Muhammad on the Throne next to Allah, despite the controversy between those who render it weak and those who render it reliable.3233
However, the context of the historical sources of the incident allow for the possibility that this was not the author of the Sunan al-Tirmidhi; rather, he was another person who lived in Baghdad,34 sharing the same nisba (as many others, like al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi), based on the distinct attributes mentioned, such as obscurity in name and scholarship history, his abuse of the teachers of the author of the Sunan al-Tirmidhi and the hadith narrators33, and his different theology353637, which seem to contradict with his traits38.
Death
At-Tirmidhi became blind in the last two years of his life, according to adh-Dhahabi.9 His blindness is said to have been the consequence of excessive weeping, either due to fear of God or over the death of al-Bukhari.3491418
He died on Monday night, 13 Rajab 279 AH (Sunday night, 8 October 892)39 in Bugh.6914
At-Tirmidhi is buried on the outskirts of Sherobod, 60 kilometers north of Termez in Uzbekistan. In Termez he is locally known as Abu Isa at-Termezi or "Termez Ota" ("Father of Termez").24
"Sibawayh, His Kitab, and the Schools of Basra and Kufa." In Changing Traditions: Al-Mubarrad's Refutation of Sībawayh and the Subsequent Reception of the Kitāb, p. 12. Vol. 23, Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics. Ed. Monique Bernards. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 1997. ISBN 9789004105959 ↩
Juynboll, G.H.A. (24 April 2012). "al-Tirmidhī". Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Brill Online. Archived from the original on 2016-09-21. Retrieved 2016-09-16. ↩↩2↩3↩4↩5
Abdul Mawjood, Salahuddin ʻAli (2007). The Biography of Imām at-Tirmidhī. Translated by Abu Bakr ibn Nasir (1st ed.). Riyadh: Darussalam. ISBN 978-9960983691. ↩↩2↩3↩4↩5↩6↩7
Wensinck, A.J. (1993). "al-Tirmidhī". Encyclopaedia of Islam, First Edition (1913-1936). Vol. 8. Leiden: E. J. Brill. pp. 796–797. ISBN 9004097961. Archived from the original on 2016-05-12. Retrieved 2015-10-19. ↩↩2↩3↩4↩5
Rushdī Abū Shabānah ʻAlī al-Rashīdī (2007). التضامن الدولي في النظام الإسلامي والنظم الوضعية : دراسة مقارنة (al-Taḍāmun al-dawlī fī al-niẓām al-Islāmī wa-al-nuẓum al-waḍʻīyah : dirāsah muqāranah) (1st ed.). Mansoura, Egypt: Dār al-Yaqīn. ISBN 9789773362409. ↩
Hoosen, Abdool Kader (1990). Imam Tirmidhi's contribution towards Hadith (1st ed.). Newcastle, South Africa: A.K. Hoosen. ISBN 9780620153140. ↩↩2↩3↩4↩5↩6↩7↩8↩9↩10↩11↩12↩13↩14↩15↩16
Banuri, Muhammad Yusuf (April 1957). "الترمذي صاحب الجامع في السنن (al-Tirmidhī ṣaḥib al-jāmi' fī al-sunan)". Majallat Al-Majmaʻ Al-ʻIlmī Al-ʻArabīyah (in Arabic). 32. Damascus: 308. Cited by Hoosen, Abdool Kader (1990). Imam Tirmidhi's contribution towards Hadith (1st ed.). Newcastle, South Africa: A.K. Hoosen. ISBN 9780620153140. ↩↩2
Wheeler, Brannon M., ed. (2002). "Glossary of Interpreters and Transmitters". Prophets in the Quran: An Introduction to the Quran and Muslim Exegesis. New York: Continuum. p. 358. ISBN 0826449565. Archived from the original on 2016-07-23. Retrieved 2015-10-19. ↩↩2
Siddiqi, Muhammad Zubayr. Hadith Literature: Its Origin, Development & Special Features. p. 64. ↩↩2↩3↩4
Adamec, Ludwig W. (2009). Historical Dictionary of Islam (2nd ed.). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. p. 307. ISBN 9780810861619. Archived from the original on 2016-05-15. Retrieved 2015-10-19. ↩
Abu Bakr al-Khallal. "Kitab al-Sunna (The Book of the Sunna)". Archived from the original on 2022-07-08. Retrieved 2020-09-25. فقد كان أحدث هذا الترمذي المبتدع ببلدنا ما اتصل بنا أنه حدث ببلدكم، وهذا أمر قد كان اضمحل وأخمله الله، وأخمل أهله وقائله، وليس بموجود في الناس، قد سلب عقله، أخزاه الله وأخزى أشياعه، وقد كان الشيوخ سئلوا عنه في حياة أبي بكر رحمه الله ومحدثي بغداد والكوفة وغير ذلك، فلم يكن منهم أحد إلا أنكره، وكره من أمره ما كتبنا به إليكم لتقفوا عليه، فأما ما قال العباس بن محمد الدوري عند سؤالهم إياه عنه ورده حديث مجاهد: ذكر أن هذا الترمذي الذي رد حديث مجاهد ما رآه قط عند محدث، ولا يعرفه بالطلب، وإن هذا الحديث لا ينكره إلا مبتدع جهمي، فنحن نسأل الله العافية من بدعته وضلالته، فما أعظم ما جاء به هذا من الضلالة والبدع، عمد إلى حديث فيه فضيلة للنبي صلى الله عليه وسلم فأراد أن يزيله ويتكلم في من رواه، وقد قال النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم: « لا تزال طائفة من أمتي على الحق، لا يضرهم من ناوأهم » ونحن نحذر عن هذا الرجل أن تستمعوا منه، وممن قال بقوله، أو تصدقوهم في شيء، فإن السنة عندنا إحياء ذكر هذا الحديث، وما أشبهه مما ترده الجهمية ↩