He was declared trustworthy by Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn.
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said, “His ḥadith is sound.”
Al-Nasāʾī and others stated, “There is nothing objectionable about him.”
I say: altogether he has seven ḥadiths.
Al-ʿIjlī was mistaken when he said that he was not a Successor.

167 – al-Mājishūn *
The Imām and traditionist Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb ibn Dīnār—some say ibn Maymūn—also known as Ibn Abī Salamah al-Madanī, the client (mawlā) of the family of al-Munkadir al-Taymī.
He heard from Ibn ʿUmar, ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz and al-Aʿraj.
Transmitters from him include his two sons, Yūsuf and ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, as well as his nephew, the Imām ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbd Allāh.
Ibn Saʿd said, “He and his sons are called al-Mājishūn; in Persian the word means ‘ruddy-complexioned’.”
Muṣʿab ibn ʿAbd Allāh said, “He taught singing and kept songstresses; this was openly known. He would sit with ʿUrwah and with ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz in Medina. Later, when he visited ʿUmar after the latter became caliph, ʿUmar said to him, ‘We left you behind when we gave up wearing brocade.’” (1)
Abū Yūsuf once died, was placed on the washing bench, then revived and lived on. The story is recorded in Tārīkh Dimashq. He finally died in the early 120s AH.
His reports appear in the Six Books; he narrated only sparingly, and no one declared him weak.

168 – al-Walīd ibn Yazīd **
Al-Walīd ibn Yazīd ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān al-Umawī, a descendant of al-Ḥakam, the caliph, Abū al-ʿAbbās, the Damascene Umayyad.