حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو كَامِلٍ الْجَحْدَرِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادٌ، وَهُوَ ابْنُ زَيْدٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَاصِمٌ، قَالَ: كُنَّا نَأْتِي أَبَا عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السُّلَمِيَّ وَنَحْنُ غِلْمَةٌ أَيْفَاعٌ، فَكَانَ يَقُولُ لَنَا: لَا تُجَالِسُوا الْقُصَّاصَ غَيْرَ أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِ، وَإِيَّاكُمْ وَشَقِيقًا. قَالَ: وَكَانَ شَقِيقٌ هَذَا يَرَى رَأْيَ الْخَوَارِجِ، وَلَيْسَ بِأَبِي وَائِلٍ.
Translation: Through Abū Kāmil, Ḥammād b. Zayd and ʿĀṣim: As youths we visited Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī. He warned us not to sit with storytellers except Abū al-Aḥwaṣ, and to beware of Shaqīq. The report then clarifies that this Shaqīq held the views of the Khawārij and was not Abū Wāʾil.
«غِلْمَةٌ أَيْفَاعٌ» describes youths approaching maturity. «الْقُصَّاصُ» here are public storytellers or preachers, not judges. The warning concerns the reliability of what such circles transmit.
The qualification «وَلَيْسَ بِأَبِي وَائِلٍ» is essential: the critic is not referring to the well-known Successor Abū Wāʾil Shaqīq b. Salamah.