Ibn ʿUyaynah said, “He was of pleasing appearance and masterful in Arabic grammar; people used to say that among Makḥūl’s students there was none like him.”

ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān remarked, “My uncle Yazīd kept no written book.”

Duḥaym said, “When Makḥūl died, everyone flocked to Yazīd ibn Yazīd, yet he was a very taciturn man, so they turned instead to Sulaymān ibn Mūsā, who lavished them with knowledge.” In another version: “He was zimmītan (1)—he would not relate anything unless asked.”

Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn and al-Nasāʾī both declared him reliable.

Khalīfah and Ibn Saʿd report that he died in 134 AH; others say he died in 133 AH. I add: his brother lived on for a further thirty years.

73 – Sharik ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Namir al-Madani (B, M, D, S, Q)
The hadith scholar.

He transmitted from Anas, Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab, Kurayb, ʿAṭāʾ ibn Yasār, and a number of others.

Those who narrated from him include Mālik, Sulaymān ibn Bilāl, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Darāwardī, Ismāʿīl ibn Jaʿfar, and Abū Ḍamrah al-Laythī.

Among the senior authorities who also reported from him is Saʿīd al-Maqburī, and that appears in the Ṣaḥīḥ.

Ibn Maʿīn and al-Nasāʾī said, “There is nothing objectionable about him,” while on another occasion they remarked, “He is not strong.”

Abū Muḥammad Ibn Ḥazm was mistaken about him and accused him of fabrication. Abū Dāwūd, however, deemed him reliable and likewise narrated from him