Clarification that the scholars' remarks regarding "Ibn Lahi'ah" were only about his precision and not about his truthfulness.

The Shaykh : This route is found in "Sunan al-Bayhaqi al-Kubra," and its chain of narration consists entirely of trustworthy men, with no defect or criticism in them, except for one man, namely "Abdullah ibn Lahi'ah," the judge of Egypt in his time. It is not hidden from us that more than one scholar of hadith has spoken about this man, but their remarks were not about his truthfulness; rather, they were about his precision and poor memory. They acknowledge his knowledge and virtue. It is sufficient for you to know that he was among the judges who ruled by the Shari'ah. He was a distinguished man, but he was struck by a calamity: his library, which was full of hadith books and parts thereof, was destroyed by fire. It is the custom of hadith scholars that when they narrated to people in hadith gatherings, they would review their original sources so that they could deliver the hadith while still fresh in their memory of the sources, their wordings, and their chains. They would study the hadiths they intended to deliver to the people, both in text and chain, and then come out to deliver them. This is what "Abdullah ibn Lahi'ah the Judge" did, as is the case with every scholar of hadith. When his books burned, he had no reference left except his memory. So he began narrating hadiths, and errors appeared in them: sometimes in the chain, and sometimes in the text. For example, a hadith that was from a Companion, stopping at him, he would say: "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said," assuming so, because he had no remaining reference to the books he had heard from his sheikhs among the hadith scholars to refer to and prepare his lesson before delivering it. So some assumptions and errors appeared from him. It was said in his biography a phrase of utmost precision: "Abdullah ibn Lahi'ah is truthful, but his memory deteriorated when his books burned..."