وَحَدَّثَنِي حَجَّاجٌ، حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ سَلَّامَ بْنَ أَبِي مُطِيعٍ يَقُولُ: بَلَغَ أَيُّوبَ أَنِّي آتِي عَمْرًا، فَأَقْبَلَ عَلَيَّ يَوْمًا فَقَالَ: أَرَأَيْتَ رَجُلًا لَا تَأْمَنُهُ عَلَى دِينِهِ، كَيْفَ تَأْمَنُهُ عَلَى الْحَدِيثِ؟
Translation: And Ḥajjāj narrated to me; Sulaymān b. Ḥarb narrated to us, saying: “I heard Sallām b. Abī Muṭīʿ say: ‘Ayyūb learned that I used to visit ʿAmr. One day he turned to me and said: Tell me, if you do not trust a man concerning his religion, how can you trust him concerning hadith?’”
The question links trust in religious integrity to responsibility in transmitting hadith. It does not establish the indiscriminate rejection of everyone holding a different juristic or doctrinal view; the evidence and conduct of the particular transmitter remain decisive.