▪️ This is Hishaam bin 'Ammaar bin Nusayr As-Sulami, Al-Haafidh Ad-Dhahabi said regarding him in his biography in "Siyar A'laam An-Nubalaa" (11/420-430):
"The Imaam, the Haafidh, the 'Allaamah, the proficient recitor, the scholar of the people of Shaam, Abul Waleed As-Sulami, he is also called Adh-Dhafari, the Khateeb of Damascus....Hishaam is great of status, has much knowledge, other than him are more precise and more just/balanced, may Allah have mercy upon him...Hishaam was an eloquent Khateeb a person of improvisation, 'Abdaan Al-Jawaaliqi narrated from him that he said:
"I haven't prepared a Khutbah for the past twenty years"
Then 'Abdaan said:
"There was none like him on the Dunya".
Abu Zur'ah Ar-Raazi said:
"Whoever missed Hishaam bin 'Ammaar has to descend ten thousand Hadiths".
End of speech.
I said:
While there were these virtues and good, Imam Ahmed would describe him with being slightly reckless, and declared him to be a Jahmi, due to what has taken place from him of general speech which contains an angle to a meaning which is a dangerous falsehood, and it wasn't said that he's from the Imams and his mode of life was a good one and that he has virtues, and that this is the basis when making a ruling, and that there's no consideration given to mistakes and missteps?!
Al-Haafidh Adh-Dhahabi said in "Al-Miyzaan" (303/4):
"AL-Marwazi said:
A book came from Damascus: ask Abu Abdillah for us, because Hishaam bin 'Ammaar, said:
The uttering of the Qur'aan by Jibreel and Muhammad, may the Salaam (of Allah) be upon them, is created.
So I asked Abu Abdillah and he said:
I know him to be reckless, may Allah fight him! Karabeesi couldn't get himself to mention Jibreel nor Muhammad, may the Salaat and Salaam of Allah be upon them, this one became a Jahmi.
And in the book it says that he said in his Khutbah:
All praise is to Allah who has appeared to His creation by way of His creation.
So I asked Abu Abdillah, and he said:
This is a Jahmi, Allah appeared to the mountains, and he is saying Allah appeared to His creation by way of His creation, if they prayed behind him let them re-do their prayer.
Adh-Dhahabi said:
The statement of Hishaam has an angle which can have it be given some consideration and be correct, but it's not befitting to use this ambiguous statement unrestrictedly."
End of speech.
With this Imam Ahmed didn't take into consideration that Hishaam bin 'Ammaar was an Imam and that his mode of life was a good one, and he ruled upon him with being a Jahmi when this wrongful speech occured from him, and he didn't look and search an excuse for him or an elaboration for this ambiguous speech!
"The Imaam, the Haafidh, the 'Allaamah, the proficient recitor, the scholar of the people of Shaam, Abul Waleed As-Sulami, he is also called Adh-Dhafari, the Khateeb of Damascus....Hishaam is great of status, has much knowledge, other than him are more precise and more just/balanced, may Allah have mercy upon him...Hishaam was an eloquent Khateeb a person of improvisation, 'Abdaan Al-Jawaaliqi narrated from him that he said:
"I haven't prepared a Khutbah for the past twenty years"
Then 'Abdaan said:
"There was none like him on the Dunya".
Abu Zur'ah Ar-Raazi said:
"Whoever missed Hishaam bin 'Ammaar has to descend ten thousand Hadiths".
End of speech.
I said:
While there were these virtues and good, Imam Ahmed would describe him with being slightly reckless, and declared him to be a Jahmi, due to what has taken place from him of general speech which contains an angle to a meaning which is a dangerous falsehood, and it wasn't said that he's from the Imams and his mode of life was a good one and that he has virtues, and that this is the basis when making a ruling, and that there's no consideration given to mistakes and missteps?!
Al-Haafidh Adh-Dhahabi said in "Al-Miyzaan" (303/4):
"AL-Marwazi said:
A book came from Damascus: ask Abu Abdillah for us, because Hishaam bin 'Ammaar, said:
The uttering of the Qur'aan by Jibreel and Muhammad, may the Salaam (of Allah) be upon them, is created.
So I asked Abu Abdillah and he said:
I know him to be reckless, may Allah fight him! Karabeesi couldn't get himself to mention Jibreel nor Muhammad, may the Salaat and Salaam of Allah be upon them, this one became a Jahmi.
And in the book it says that he said in his Khutbah:
All praise is to Allah who has appeared to His creation by way of His creation.
So I asked Abu Abdillah, and he said:
This is a Jahmi, Allah appeared to the mountains, and he is saying Allah appeared to His creation by way of His creation, if they prayed behind him let them re-do their prayer.
Adh-Dhahabi said:
The statement of Hishaam has an angle which can have it be given some consideration and be correct, but it's not befitting to use this ambiguous statement unrestrictedly."
End of speech.
With this Imam Ahmed didn't take into consideration that Hishaam bin 'Ammaar was an Imam and that his mode of life was a good one, and he ruled upon him with being a Jahmi when this wrongful speech occured from him, and he didn't look and search an excuse for him or an elaboration for this ambiguous speech!