Farqad al-Sabakhi

Farqad ibn Ya'qub al-Sabakhi, Abu Ya'qub of Basra — named after the salt-marsh of Basra, though some say that of Kufa — was a weaver who narrated from Ibrahim al-Nakha'i, Anas ibn Malik, Rib'i ibn al-Tayyib and Abu al-'Ala' Yazid ibn 'Abdallah ibn al-Shikhkhir. ¹

Ishaq Abu Shayban al-Hudhali, Ja'far ibn Sulayman ibn Yahya, Wahb ibn Rashid and Yusuf ibn 'Atiyya al-Saffar narrated from him, but the critics are unanimous on his weakness: when Hammad ibn Zayd asked Ayyub about him he said "he is nothing" — in another report "he is no hadith man" — 'Ali ibn al-Madini quoted Yahya al-Qattan's dislike of narrating from him, Ibn Hibban listed him among the discredited who inverted chains, and al-Bukhari said Ibn Mahdi abandoned him. ¹