and Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Muqaddamī, Abū al-Rabīʿ al-Zahrānī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Ḥarashī, Muḥammad ibn Zunbur, Muḥammad ibn al-Naḍr al-Marwazī, Isḥāq ibn Abī Isrāʾīl, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbda, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muʿāwiyah al-Jumaḥī, Abū al-Ashʿath Aḥmad ibn al-Miqdām al-ʿIjlī, and al-Haytham ibn Sahl—the last person to narrate from him—together with many others.
A large number of these transmitters have been recorded in full; among those who did so is our teacher Abū al-Ḥajjāj in his “Tahdhīb.”
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī said, “The imams of the people in their time were four: Sufyān al-Thawrī (1) in Kūfa, Mālik in the Ḥijāz, al-Awzāʿī in Syria (2), and Ḥammād ibn Zayd in Baṣra.”
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn said, “No one was more reliable than Ḥammād ibn Zayd.”
Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā al-Naysābūrī said, “I have never seen a shaykh with a better memory than Ḥammād ibn Zayd.”
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said, “Ḥammād ibn Zayd is one of the imams of the Muslims, a man of true religion; he is dearer to me than Ḥammād ibn Salamah.”
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī also said, “I have never seen anyone more knowledgeable of the sunnah, or of the ḥadiths that fall under the sunnah, than Ḥammād ibn Zayd.”
It is related from Sufyān al-Thawrī that he said, “The leading man of Baṣra after Shuʿbah is that Blue-Eyed one”—meaning Ḥammād.
Wakīʿ ibn al-Jarrāḥ stated, “We compared no one to Ḥammād ibn Zayd except Misʿar (3).”
Sulaimān ibn Ḥarb said, “Ḥammād ibn Zayd possessed no book other than the book of Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī.”
Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿIjlī remarked, “Ḥammād ibn Zayd is trustworthy; his narrations amount to four thousand ḥadiths, all of which he had memorized, and he owned no book.”
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Khirāsh, the ḥāfiẓ, said, “Ḥammād ibn Zayd never erred in …”