وَقَدْ تَكَلَّمَ بَعْضُ مُنْتَحِلِي الْحَدِيثِ مِنْ أَهْلِ عَصْرِنَا فِي تَصْحِيحِ الْأَسَانِيدِ وَتَسْقِيمِهَا بِقَوْلٍ لَوْ ضَرَبْنَا عَنْ حِكَايَتِهِ وَذِكْرِ فَسَادِهِ صَفْحًا، لَكَانَ رَأْيًا مَتِينًا وَمَذْهَبًا صَحِيحًا.
Translation: Some who claimed association with hadith in our time advanced a view concerning the authentication and weakening of chains. Had we refrained from repeating and refuting it, that would have been a prudent course.
The phrase “claimants of hadith” is not itself a verified identification of an individual. Tasqīm refers to judging a chain unsound. Muslim is setting up a methodological objection, not yet criticizing a specific narrator.