al-ʿAllāmah ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yaḥyá al-Muʿalimí (d. 1386AH) mentions in his book, “al-Tankīl” which he authored in criticism of Muḥammad Zāhid al-Kawtharī, specifically, regarding the narrator of ḥadīth: al-Mughīrah ibn Siglāb al-Jazarī (d. 202 AH):
al-Mughīrah (ibn Siglāb al-Jazarī), was declared weak by Ibn ʿAdī (d. 365 AH). Ibn Abī Ḥātim recalls from his father that he mentioned about him, “He was upright”, and that Abū Zurʿah (al-Rāzī) says about him, “A Jazarī1 who was fine”.
I say: the praise of foreigners [i.e. those unaware of his condition] does not increase a narrator who has b…
