The book includes accounts of narrators accused of being fabricators (e.g., Mughira bin Sa'eed, Abu Samina) who inserted false narratives into the books of the companions of the Imams. Context of Allegiance (Bay'ah):
Early critics like Ibn al-Ghadha’iri (d. 450 AH) used Report 176 as evidence to declare Yunus ibn Abd al-Rahman “weak” ( da’if ). According to this camp, if a narrator consistently cites unreliable sources, his own reliability is compromised. They argued that ignoring Report 176 would be to ignore the explicit jarh (criticism) from a contemporary. Rijal Al Kashi Report 176