It is also related of him that he met Abū Hurayrah and al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī.

Al-Nasāʾī said, “His narrations are acceptable.”
Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Qaṭṭān remarked, “There is nothing objectionable about him.”
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said, “Reliable,” and on another occasion, “His ḥadith are of average strength.”
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn judged him “weak.”
Abū Zurʿah said, “Soft (i.e., somewhat weak).”
Abū Ḥātim stated, “His ḥadith may be written down.”
Ibn ʿAdī declared, “In my assessment he is truthful.”

It was said that al-Suddi possessed an exceptionally large beard.

ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit recounted: “I heard al-Shaʿbī, and someone said to him, ‘Ismāʿīl al-Suddi has been given a share of knowledge.’ He replied, ‘Ismāʿīl has been given a share of ignorance concerning the Qurʾān.’”

I say: Every person’s ignorance of the Qurʾānic sciences outweighs his knowledge of them.

Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid said, “Al-Suddi was more knowledgeable of the Qurʾān than al-Shaʿbī—may Allah have mercy on them both.”

Salm ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān—a teacher of Sharīk—said: “Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī passed by al-Suddi while he was interpreting, and remarked, ‘He is indeed expounding with the exegesis of the early scholars.’”

Khalīfah ibn Khayyāṭ reported that Ismāʿīl al-Suddi died in the year 127 AH.

I add: As for ‘al-Suddi the Younger,’ he is Muḥammad ibn Marwān al-Kūfī, one of the abandoned narrators who lived in the time of Wakīʿ.

125 – Hilāl ibn Abī Maymūnah ʿAlī al-ʿĀmirī al-Madanī * (ʿ)
He is Hilāl ibn Abī Maymūnah al-ʿĀmirī, of Madinah, a client of the family of ʿĀmir ibn Luʾayy; he is trustworthy and well-known.