Aḥmad mentioned him and said, “Trustworthy, absolutely trustworthy.”

Yazīd ibn Hārūn remarked, “He was a man who actively commanded what is right (1) and forbade what is wrong.”

He added that the shaykh passed away in 148 AH.

As for:

153 – al-ʿAwwām ibn Ḥamzah al-Māzinī *
A Basran shaykh.
He narrated from Abū ʿUthmān al-Nahdī and Bakr ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Muzanī.
Among those who transmitted from him were Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān, Ghundar, and a group of others.
Ibn ʿAdī said, “I hope there is nothing objectionable about him.”
Aḥmad said, “He has reports that are repudiated.”
ʿAbbās narrated from Yaḥyā, who said, “His ḥadith is worthless.”
I say: This is one of the weak narrators from whom al-Qaṭṭān reported, and his condition escaped him.

154 – Hishām ibn Ḥassān, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Qardūsī ** (ʿ)
The imam, scholar, ḥāfiẓ, and hadith authority of Basra, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Azdī, al-Qardūsī, the Basran.
It is said that he belonged to the ʿAtīk clan and settled in al-Qarādis; another view is that he was one of their freedmen, and this is more likely.
No grandfather is recorded for him despite Hishām’s fame and distinction, and I know of nothing he transmitted directly from the Companions, though it appears he saw Anas ibn Mālik, for he encountered him when Anas was already advanced in age.
He reported from al-Ḥasan, Ibn Sīrīn, his sister Ḥafṣah bint Sīrīn, and Abū Mijlaz,