وَحَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ رَافِعٍ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ، أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنِ ابْنِ طَاوُسٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، قَالَ: «إِنَّمَا كُنَّا نَحْفَظُ الْحَدِيثَ، وَالْحَدِيثُ يُحْفَظُ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ، فَأَمَّا إِذْ رَكِبْتُمْ كُلَّ صَعْبٍ وَذَلُولٍ، فَهَيْهَاتَ».
Translation: Muḥammad ibn Rāfiʿ narrated to me; ʿAbd al-Razzāq narrated to us; Maʿmar informed us, from Ibn Ṭāwūs, from his father, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: “We used to memorize hadith, and hadith from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to be carefully preserved. But now that you have ridden every difficult and docile mount [taken up every sort of report], far from it!”
“Fahayhāt” expresses the remoteness of retaining the former level of confidence. Mere volume cannot substitute for disciplined assessment of transmitted material.