Ahmad bin Ibrāhīm ad-Dawraqī narrated to me, he said Abd ur-Rahman bin Mahdī narrated to me, on authority Hammād bin Zayd, he said, Ayyūb mentioned a man one day and said : ‘He is not upright in speech [i.e. he lies]’, and he mentioned another and said: ‘He adds to records [i.e. he lies]’.