Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

He replied:
أما الشعبي فلم يذكره،‏ فال أدري لسوء رأي بني أمية في علي،‏ أو لم يكن في الحديث
As for al-Shaʿbī, he has not made mention of him. I do not know was it
because of the ill-opinion of the Umayyads regarding ʿAlī, or because he
just was not in the narration. 1
This suggests that it had settled in the minds of many that at times the name
of ʿAlī I was purposely not mentioned due to the position of the Umayyads
regarding him.
If the Umayyads could not tolerate people merely narrating a narration from ʿAlī
I, whatever its topic might be, then how would they have tolerated people
narrating his merits and extolling his virtues. 2
The fear of not explicitly taking the name of an individual or narrating from him
was not confined to ʿAlī I. Rather it exceeded him to his children as well.
Hence some scholars did not narrate the narrations of senior scholars of the Ahl
al-Bayt but after the fall of the Umayyad dynasty, as al-Darāwardī 3 narrates from
Imām Mālik:
لم يرومالك عن جعفر حتى ظهرأمر بني العباس
1 Tafsīr al-Ṭabarī 3/297. Also see: Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ 5/139; Rūḥ al-Maʿānī 1/46.
2 Al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah 4/565.
3 ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd al-Juhanī, their client, Abū Muḥammad al-Darāwardī. A
ḥadīth scholar of Madīnah. His ancestors hailed from Darāward, a village from the villages of Persia.
However, he was born in Madīnah and that is where he passed away in 187 A.H. Ibn Ḥajar has stated,
“An average narrator who would narrate from the books of others and would err. His narrations
appear in all six books. See: Tahdhīb al-Kamāl 18/187; Tadhkirah al-Ḥuffāẓ 1/269; Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb
6/315; Taqrīb al-Tahdhīb p. 358.
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