He composed panegyrics for Yazid b. Muʿawiyah and the other Umayyad caliphs, and his poetry has been fully collected.

ʿUthmān al-Taymī said, “I once saw Jarir, and his lips were never closed from uttering tasbih (glorification).”

I said to him, “That is your state, yet you revile chaste women!”

He replied, “Indeed, good deeds erase bad deeds” (Hud 11:114) — a true promise from Allah.

Bashshār al-Aʿmā related: “The people of Syria unanimously agree upon Jarir, al-Farazdaq, and al-Akhtal the Christian.”

I say: a number of critics have nevertheless given Jarir precedence over al-Farazdaq.

Yunus b. Habib reported that al-Farazdaq once asked his wife Nawār, “Who is the finer poet, me or the son of al-Marāgha?” She answered, “He has bested you in the sweetness of verse while sharing with you its bitterness.”

Marwān b. Abī Ḥafṣa said:
“Al-Farazdaq may have secured the boast,
but the sweetness and the bitterness of verse
both belong to Jarir.”

It was also said that Jarir was chaste and penitent.

He died ten years — and one month — after al-Farazdaq. His full entry appears in Ibn ʿAsākir’s History of Damascus in two separate fascicles.

228 – Bushayr b. Yasār al-Madanī * (ʿ)
A Medinan, an imam and reliable transmitter, one of the freedmen of the Ansar. He is not the brother of ʿAtāʾ b. Yasār nor of Sulaymān b. Yasār.