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حَدَّثَنِي أَحْمَدُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الدَّوْرَقِيُّ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ السَّلَامِ الْوَابِصِيُّ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ الرَّقِّيُّ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو، قَالَ: كَانَ يَحْيَى بْنُ أَبِي أُنَيْسَةَ كَذَّابًا.
Translation: Aḥmad al-Dawraqī transmits through ʿAbd al-Salām al-Wābiṣī and ʿAbd Allāh b. Jaʿfar al-Raqqī the statement of ʿUbayd Allāh b. ʿAmr: “Yaḥyā b. Abī Unaysah was an egregious/habitual liar.”

This second report supplies the intensive critical judgment *kadhdhāb* (not merely an isolated mistake), rather than merely advising against transmission. Its force should not be softened, but it remains a reported critical verdict about a person, not an automatic separate examination of every matn.

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An Explicit Accusation Concerning Yaḥyā b. Abī Unaysah

The Necessity and Boundaries of Narrator Criticism

حَدَّثَنِي أَحْمَدُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الدَّوْرَقِيُّ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ السَّلَامِ الْوَابِصِيُّ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ الرَّقِّيُّ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو، قَالَ: كَانَ يَحْيَى بْنُ أَبِي أُنَيْسَةَ كَذَّابًا.
Translation: Aḥmad al-Dawraqī transmits through ʿAbd al-Salām al-Wābiṣī and ʿAbd Allāh b. Jaʿfar al-Raqqī the statement of ʿUbayd Allāh b. ʿAmr: “Yaḥyā b. Abī Unaysah was an egregious/habitual liar.”

This second report supplies the intensive critical judgment *kadhdhāb* (not merely an isolated mistake), rather than merely advising against transmission. Its force should not be softened, but it remains a reported critical verdict about a person, not an automatic separate examination of every matn.