Ḥāzim?’ He answered, “The two of them are almost equal, yet Jarīr was the more prone to error.”

I say: his slips have been excused because of the sheer volume of material he transmitted. In his middle years he travelled to Egypt, gathered a great deal of ḥadīth, and then related it to others.

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī said, “To me, Jarīr is more firmly established than Qurrah ibn Khālid.”

Aḥmad ibn Zuhayr reported from Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn: “He is superior to Abū Hilāl, and he kept a written compilation.”

ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd transmitted from Yaḥyā that he declared, “Reliable.”

ʿAbbās likewise narrated from Yaḥyā: “His ḥadīths are sounder and their chains stronger than those of Ibn Abī al-Ashhab.”

Al-ʿIjlī said, “A Basran, trustworthy.”

Abū Ḥātim remarked, “Truthful and upright. He and al-Sarī ibn Yaḥyā both came to Egypt. His narrations are better than al-Sarī’s, though al-Sarī’s delivery is more pleasant.”

Al-Nasāʾī and others said, “There is no problem with him.”

ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said: I asked Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn about Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim, and he replied, “There is no problem with him.” I said, “But he reports from Qatādah on the authority of Anas some objectionable traditions.” He responded, “His narrations from Qatādah are weak.”

Yaʿqūb ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Ḥammād ibn Zayd transmitted from Wahb ibn Jarīr, who said: “My father recited before Abū ʿAmr ibn al-ʿAlāʾ, and he told him, ‘You are more eloquent than Maʿd.’”

Sulaim ibn Manṣūr ibn ʿAmmār related from Abū Naṣr al-Tammār: “When Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim was narrating and someone approached whom he had no desire to teach, he would place his hand on a molar and say, ‘Oh!’”

Ibn ʿAdī said, “Jarīr was among the distinguished and eminent scholars of Basra; he purchased Walid…"