Ḥujr; Yazīd ibn Mawhib; Suwayd ibn Saʿīd; and a host of others.

He was declared trustworthy by Ibn al-Mubārak, Ibn Maʿīn, Ibn ʿAmmār, and Abū Zurʿah.

Aḥmad and others said, “There is no problem with him.”

Aḥmad al-ʿIjlī remarked, “Reliable; he later settled in Ramla.”

Abū Zurʿah said, “Reliable, a man of the Sunnah.”

Abū Ḥātim said, “Truthful, unobjectionable.”

Ibn ʿAdī stated, “He has only a small number of ḥadiths; some of his narrations contain things that are rejected, yet I know of no major criticism of him by the early authorities worth recording.”

I (the author) say: That was because he lived in relative seclusion in Palestine.

Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Aswad reported: I heard ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī say, “I have not seen anyone more comprehensive than ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak; nor have I seen anyone I would place ahead of Bishr ibn Manṣūr; nor anyone who described the Sunnah more beautifully than Shihāb ibn Khirāsh; nor anyone more knowledgeable of the Sunnah than Ḥammād ibn Zayd. As for Sufyān, he possesses both knowledge and asceticism.”

Buhlūl ibn Isḥāq narrated: Saʿīd ibn Manṣūr told us—Shihāb ibn Khirāsh reported: “I met those of the foremost generation of this community whom I was able to reach, and they used to say: ‘Recall the gatherings of the Companions of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, for that harmonizes the hearts; but do not speak about the disagreements that arose among them, lest you incite the people against them.’”

Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd al-Khuraymī related—from Hishām ibn ʿAmmār—who said: I heard Shihāb ibn Khirāsh say, “The Qadarites wished to extol Allah’s justice, and in so doing they stripped Him of His grace.”

Hishām added, “I met Shihāb when I was a young man, in the year 174 AH, and he said—”