ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd reported from Ibn Maʿīn, who said: “In his narrations from al-Zuhrī, Ibn Jurayj is of no consequence.”
Abū Zurʿah al-Dimashqī transmitted from Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal: “Ibn Jurayj narrated from six elderly women of the Sacred Mosque, and he was a man of learning.”
Jaʿfar ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid related from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd: “Ibn Jurayj was truthful. When he says ‘ḥaddathanī’ (he related to me), that means he heard it directly; when he says ‘anbaʾanā’ or ‘akhbaranī’, that indicates a reading; but when he merely says ‘qāla’ (he said), it is like the wind.”
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī reported from Sufyān: “I found it exhausting to memorize Ibn Jurayj’s hadith. I therefore looked for something that summed up the meaning, memorized that, and left the rest.”
Sulaymān ibn al-Naḍr ash-Shīrāzī transmitted from Makhlad ibn al-Ḥusayn: “I have never seen any creature of Allah with a truer tongue than Ibn Jurayj.”
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal narrated from ʿAbd al-Razzāq: “I have never seen anyone whose prayer was more perfect than that of Ibn Jurayj.”
Al-Musallam ibn Muḥammad informed us; al-Kindi informed us; al-Qazzāz informed us; Abū Bakr ibn Thābit informed us; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Muʿaddal reported to us; Ismāʿīl al-Ṣaffār reported to us; Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd-Allah al-Munādī reported to us; Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal reported to us; ʿAbd al-Razzāq reported to us, saying: “The people of Mecca say that Ibn Jurayj learned the prayer from ʿAṭāʾ, ʿAṭāʾ learned it from Ibn al-Zubayr, Ibn al-Zubayr learned it from Abū Bakr, and Abū Bakr learned it from the Prophet ﷺ.” (1)