You mentioned in *Irwaa' al-Ghalaal* that "al-'Ajli" is lenient in certifying narrators

The questioner : Your Eminence mentioned in *Irwaa' al-Ghalaal* that "al-'Ajli" = -- ... -- = Your Eminence mentioned in *Irwaa' al-Ghalaal* that "al-'Ajli" is lenient in certifying narrators; so when is his certification accepted and when is it not accepted if he is the sole one to certify? And what is the difference between his certification and the certification of Ibn Hibaan and the certification of al-Haakim?

The Shaykh : They are on the same scale, and what we said about al-'Ajli applies to Ibn Hibaan. We recently recorded a detailed answer regarding the certification of Ibn Hibaan: if he is the sole one to certify, the general rule is that this certification is not considered and is not relied upon, except in two cases:
If the one he certifies is among his sheikhs whom he kept close to and knew intimately and up close.
The second case is if he certifies a man from whom a group of trustworthy narrators narrated, and nothing contradictory appears in the narration of these people. At that point, the researcher's mind is reassured, as Ibn al-Qayyim says regarding the hadith, "it rises," and his mind is reassured to use the hadith of such a narrator as evidence. As for everything else, it remains on the original rule of not using it as evidence.
We have elaborated on this, but this brief summary is sufficient.