and he said:

Aḥmad ibn Sinān reported: “I heard ʿAbd al-Raḥmān say,
‘The reports of Mujālid that come to us through the younger narrators—such as Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd and Abū Usāmah—are worthless. What reaches us through Shuʿbah, Ḥammād ibn Zayd, Hushaym, and the other early transmitters is acceptable; this is because his memory only deteriorated toward the end of his life.’

ʿAmr ibn ʿAlī said: I heard Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd say to ʿUbayd Allāh, ‘Where are you off to?’ He replied, ‘To Wahb ibn Jarīr; I want to write down the Sīrah’—meaning: from his father, from Mujālid. Yaḥyā said, ‘You will be writing a great deal of falsehood. If he wished, Mujālid could attribute the whole of it to al-Shaʿbī, from Masrūq, from ʿAbd Allāh, and he would do so.’

Aḥmad said, ‘Mujālid is nothing; he elevates reports that other people do not elevate, yet people have put up with him.’

Ibn Maʿīn said, ‘He is not to be cited as evidence,’ and on another occasion, ‘Weak.’

Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd used to say, ‘If I wanted Mujālid (1) to raise every one of his reports for me, he would do so.’ This was narrated by Ibn Abī Khaythamah from Yaḥyā.

Abū Ḥātim said, ‘He is not a proof, though I still prefer him to Bishr ibn Ḥarb, Abū Hārūn, Shahr ibn Ḥawshab, Dāwūd al-Awdi, and ʿĪsā al-Ḥannāṭ.’

Al-Nasāʾī said, ‘Reliable,’ and elsewhere, ‘Not strong.’

Ibn ʿAdī remarked, ‘He has some acceptable reports from al-Shaʿbī through Jābir, and other acceptable reports from Companions besides Jābir; but most of what he transmits is not preserved.’

Abū Saʿīd al-Ashajj said, ‘He was a Shīʿī.’

Al-Dāraqutnī judged him, ‘Weak.’

Khalid al-Taḥḥān was asked, ‘Why did you not write from Mujālid?’ He answered, ‘Because he had an excessively long beard.’