He narrated from: Abu al-Tufayl ʿAmir ibn Wathilah, Abu Waʾil, Tawus, Mujahid, Abu al-Duḥa, his own father, and a number of others.

Narrations were transmitted from him by: the two Sufyans, Abu Usamah, Yahya ibn Adam, ʿUbayd Allah ibn Musa, Bakr ibn Bakkar, al-Firyani, Qabisah, Yahya ibn Saʿid al-Qattan, and many others.

Ahmad ibn Hanbal declared him reliable, and once said, “In the view of Yahya ibn Saʿid he was trustworthy, but he was an extreme khashabi (1).”

Ahmad al-ʿIjli said, “Reliable, his hadith are good; he had a slight tendency toward tashayyuʿ (Shiʿi leanings).”

Ibn Saʿd said, “Trustworthy—God willing—though some consider him weak. He reached an advanced age and met many scholars, but he would not allow anyone to write in his presence.”

Abu Bakr ibn ʿAyyash stated, “I stopped narrating from Fitr only because of the unsoundness of his doctrine.”

ʿAbd Allah ibn Ahmad reported: I asked my father about Fitr, and he replied, “Trustworthy, sound in hadith; his reports are those of an intelligent man, except that he inclines toward tashayyuʿ.”

Ahmad ibn Yunus said, “I purposely abandoned him; he was Shiʿi. I used to pass by him at the Kunasah among the grain merchants—he was lame—and I would walk on, leaving him as one leaves a dog.”

Al-ʿUqayli said: Muhammad ibn Ismaʿil narrated to us; al-Hasan ibn ʿAli narrated to us; he said: “I was informed by Jarir that al-Aʿmash, Mansur, and Mughirah used to drink, and when the drink affected their heads they would mock Fitr ibn Khalifah.”