Alī ibn al-Madīnī said: “I asked Sufyān, ‘How does the memorization of Ibrāhīm ibn Maysarah in the narrations he took from Ṭāwūs compare with that of Ṭāwūs’s own son?’”
He replied, “If I wished, I could tell you that I actually place Ibrāhīm ahead of him in accuracy.”

Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal and Yaḥyā [ibn Maʿīn] both judged him to be trustworthy.
Al-Madīnī also said: “He died not long before the year 132 AH.”

36 – Bayān ibn Bishr, Abū Bishr al-Aḥmasī al-Kūfī * (ʿ)
A leading, reliable transmitter and educator, Abū Bishr al-Aḥmasī, a Kufan.

He narrated from: Anas ibn Mālik, Ṭāriq ibn Shihāb, Qays ibn Abī Ḥāzim, al-Shaʿbī, and others.
Transmitters from him include: Zāʾidah, Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, Ibn Fuḍayl, ʿUbaydah ibn Ḥumayd, ʿAlī ibn ʿĀṣim, and others.
He has roughly seventy hadiths and is regarded as a definitive authority without the least hesitation.

37 – Yaʿqūb ibn ʿUtbah ibn al-Mughīrah ibn al-Akhnas ibn Shurayq al-Thaqafī ** (D, S, Q)
One of the recognized scholars of sīrah (the Prophet’s biography).

He transmitted from: ʿUrwah, ʿIkrimah, and Yazīd ibn Hurmuz, and he also met al-Sāʾib ibn Yazīd.
Transmitters from him include: Ibn Isḥāq, Ibn al-Mājashūn, Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd, al-Walīd ibn Musāfir, and others.

A man of learning and piety, he oversaw the administration of the ṣadaqāt (public alms).
Ibn Maʿīn and other authorities declared him reliable.
He died in 128 AH.