I was traveling in Sham when a man called out to me from behind. I turned around and saw that it was Raja bin Haywa.He said, "Abu Awn, what is this that people are reporting from al-Hasan?"I replied, "They tell many lies against al-Hasan."
حدثنا محمد بن عبيد حدثنا سليم
كنت أسير بالشام فناداني رجل من خلفي فالتفت فإذا رجاء بن حيوة فقال يا أبا عون ما هذا الذي يذكرون عن الحسن قال قلت إنهم يكذبون على الحسن كثيرا
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[Its chain is daif] Bayhaqi reported it in Qadar wal-Qadar (folio 87b) from the hadith of Abu Dawud with the same wording, and in his version it has "Sulayman" instead of "Sulaym," and he is either Ibn Akhdar or Ibn Hayan al-Ahmar. Sulayman bin Habban is a mudallis and he narrated using "an."