Abu Dawud transmitted—through Abu al-Walid—that he said, “He was fit to be a vizier.”

Abu Hatim, al-Nasa’i, and a number of other critics said, “Reliable (thiqah).”

Ahmad ibn Sinan reported from ʿAbd al-Rahman who said:
Bishr ibn al-Sari remarked, “Neither Ibn Abi Dhiʾb nor al-Majishun ever heard directly from al-Zuhri.”
Ibn Sinan commented, “In my view, that means their transmission was by ʿarḍ (presentation) (1).”

Abu al-Tahir ibn al-Sarḥ related—on the authority of Ibn Wahb—that he said:
“I performed Hajj in 148 AH, and a herald was calling out, ‘No one may issue fatwas to the people except Malik and ʿAbd al-ʿAziz ibn Abi Salamah.’”

ʿAmr ibn Khalid al-Harrani said: “Abu Jaʿfar al-Mansur set out for Hajj and al-Mahdi accompanied him. When they reached the point of farewell he said, ‘My son (2), ask me to point someone out to you.’
He replied, ‘I ask you for a man of sound understanding.’
So he presented him with ʿAbd al-ʿAziz ibn Abi Salamah.”

Muhammad ibn Saʿd stated, “ʿAbd al-ʿAziz was reliable and prolific in hadith; the people of Iraq narrate more from him than do the people of Medina. He came to Baghdad and stayed there until he died in 164 AH, and al-Mahdi led his funeral prayer. Others have recorded the same date.

Ibn Hibban, however, said that he died in 166 AH, and added: ‘He was a jurist, devout, following the school of the scholars of the Two Sanctuaries, basing his legal inferences on their principles and defending their positions.’”

Ahmad ibn Salamah informed us—by ijazah—from Yahya ibn Asʿad; ʿAbd al-Qadir ibn Muhammad narrated to us; Abu Ishaq al-Barmaki narrated to us; Abu Bakr ibn Bukhayt narrated to us; ʿUmar ibn Muhammad al-Jawhari related to us; Abu Bakr al-Athram narrated to us; ʿAbd Allah ibn Salih—on the authority of ʿAbd al-ʿAziz ibn al-Majishun—that he was asked about the doctrines denied by the Jahmiyyah (3), and he replied: