Al-Dāraqutnī said, “He may be used for corroboration.”
Abū Aḥmad ibn ʿAdī stated, “There is no harm in his ḥadiths when a trustworthy transmitter relates them from him; his narrations are sound.”
Al-Bukhārī and al-Nasāʾī gave him the kunyah Abū Yaḥyā.
ʿAbd al-Razzāq said, “I have never seen a man more scrupulous than he.”
ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad reported: My father told me, saying:
Abū al-Naḍr said, “I used to recommend him to Shuʿbah at al-Ruṣāfah, and then Muḥammad ibn Rāshid entered. Shuʿbah said to me, ‘Have you not written from him? Indeed, he is truthful, but he is a Shīʿī Qadarī.’ (1)”
Al-Fallās said, “A Qadarī.”
Maḥmūd ibn Ghailān, from Abū al-Naḍr, from Shuʿbah, related to me: “Do not write from Muḥammad ibn Rāshid, for he is a Muʿtazilī Rāfiḍī.” (2)
Abū Mushir said, “He was not reliable; he used to commit taṣḥīf (scribal distortion).”
Al-Jawzajānī remarked, “He embraced more than one innovation, yet he was careful to tell the truth.” (3)
And Abū Mushir also said, “He held the view of taking up the sword, so I did not write from him.”
Abū Zurʿah al-Dimashqī said, “He died after the year 160 AH.”

126 – Hishām ibn Saʿd Abū ʿAbbād al-Qurashī * (M, 4)
The Imām, ḥadith scholar, and truthful transmitter, Abū ʿAbbād al-Qurashī, their client, from Medina,