Muʿtamar ibn Sulaymān said, “My father used to encourage me to study the narrations of al-Mughīrah, and he had a written collection of them.”

Aḥmad ibn Abī Maryam reported from Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn: “He is reliable, trustworthy.”

Abū Ḥātim related from Yaḥyā who said, “Al-Mughīrah had a better memory than Ḥammād ibn Abī Sulaymān.”

Ibn Abī Ḥātim said, “I asked my father, ‘Which do you prefer—al-Mughīrah’s reports from al-Shaʿbī or those of Ibn Shubrumah?’ He replied, ‘Both are reliable.’”

Al-ʿIjlī said, “Al-Mughīrah is reliable and a jurist. However, he would transmit hadith from Ibrāhīm in mursal form; when questioned, he would name the person from whom he had heard it. He was one of the jurists among Ibrāhīm’s companions, was blind, and inclined toward ʿUthmān, assigning some blame to ʿAlī.”

Abū Dāwūd said, “Al-Mughīrah heard from Abū Wāʾil and from Abū Razīn, and he heard from Ibrāhīm one hundred and eighty hadith … until he concluded, ‘and al-Mughīrah does not practise tadlīs (concealing an intermediary).’”

Abū Dāwūd also narrated: Jarīr said, “I sat with Abū Jaʿfar al-Rāzī, and he remarked, ‘Al-Mughīrah only heard four hadith from Ibrāhīm.’ I kept silent.” ʿAlī commented, “Yet Jarīr’s own compilation of al-Mughīrah’s narrations from Ibrāhīm contains one hundred hadith recorded as having been heard directly.”

Abū Dāwūd further stated, “Al-Mughīrah inserted between himself and Ibrāhīm nearly twenty transmitters.”

Al-Nasāʾī said, “He is reliable.”

Jarīr narrated from al-Mughīrah: “Today I seek reward (from Allah) by withholding hadith just as they seek reward by conveying it.”

He also related from him that he said, “When the tongue speaks about matters that do not concern it, the nape cries, ‘Alas, disaster!’ (1)