24. The story copied by commentators that Mohammad had accidentally seen Zeinab and admired her is traced to Mukatil,[376] a commentator of the Koran in the second century, who died at Basra 150 A.H. "The doctors (_in traditions_)," writes Ibn Khallikan in his Biographical Dictionary, translated by Slane, "differ in opinion respecting Mukatil: some declare that, as a traditionist, he was worthy of confidence, and others accused him of falsehood." ... Ahmed bin Saiyar says:-- "Mukatil Ibn Sulaiman, a native of Balkh, went to Marw, whence he proceeded to Irak. His veracity is suspected; his Traditions should be left aside and declarations should be rejected. Speaking of the divine attributes, he said things which it would be sinful to repeat." Ibrahim Ibn Yakub-al-Juz-Jani called Mukatil an audacious liar. Abu Abd ar-Rahman an Nasai said:--"Liars notorious for forging Traditions and passing them off as coming from the Prophet were four in number: Ibn Abi Yahya, at Medina; Al-Wakidi, at Baghdad; Mukatil Ibn Sulaiman, in Khorasan; and Muhammad Ibn Said, surnamed _Al-Maslub_, in Syria." Waki Ibn al-Jarrah said of Mukatil that he was a confirmed liar. Abu Bakr al-Ajurri said: "I asked Abu Dawud Sulaiman Ibn al Ashath concerning Mukatil, and he answered:--'All Traditions given by him should be rejected.' According to Omar Ibn al-Ghallas, Mukatil Ibn Sulaiman was a liar, and his traditions were to be rejected." "As for Mukatil Ibn Sulaiman," said Al-Bukhari, "pass him over in silence." In another place, he says of him: "He is just nothing at all." Yahya Ibn Moin declared that Mukatil's traditions were of no value; and Ahmad Ibn Hanbal said: "As for Mukatil Ibn Sulaiman, the author of the Commentary, I should not like to cite anything on his authority." "His Traditions are to be rejected," said Abu Hatim ar-Razi. According to Zakariya Ibn Yahya as-Saji, people said of Mukatil Ibn Sulaiman, the native of Khorasan, "that he was a liar, and that his traditions should be rejected."[377] [Sidenote: Ikrama.] Ikrama (died 107 A.H.), another liar, had only surmised before Mukatil that Mohammad might have admired Zeinab. His words, as related by the traditionists, Abd bin Hamid and Ibn-al-Munzar, are "as if she had fallen deep in his mind."[378] But Mukatil has converted this hazardous conjecture into a fact. Abd Allah Ibn al-Harith relates as follows:-- "I went to visit Ali, the son of Abd Allah Ibu Abbas, and I saw Ikrama tied up at the door of a privy, on which I said: 'Is it thus that you treat your slave?' To which he replied. 'Know that that fellow has told lies of my father.'"[379] [Sidenote: Mohammad bin Yahya.] Mohammad bin Yahya bin Habban[380] (died 121 A.H.) has also given the tradition of Mohammad's admiring Zeinab at Zeid's house, but does not give his authority. He was not a contemporary narrator, therefore his narration is apocryphal and technically _Mursal_.