He has narrated to you from Ibn ʿUmar, so accept his report.

Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said, “I kept the company of Hushaym for four—perhaps five—years. Out of reverence for him I only posed two questions in all that time. Between narrations he was constantly glorifying Allah; in those pauses he would say, ‘There is no god but Allah,’ elongating the phrase with his voice.”

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī said, “Hushaym’s retention of hadith was superior to that of Sufyān al-Thawrī.”

Yazīd ibn Hārūn remarked, “I have never seen anyone with a stronger memory for hadith than Hushaym—except Sufyān, God willing.”

Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿIjlī said, “Hushaym is trustworthy, counted among the foremost memorizers, but he did practice tadlīs (omitting the intermediary).”

Ibn Abī al-Dunyā related, “Someone who heard ʿAmr ibn ʿAwn told me that for the twenty years preceding his death, Hushaym would perform the dawn prayer with the ablution of the night prayer.”

ʿAmr ibn ʿAwn said, “I heard Ḥammād ibn Zayd declare, ‘Among the hadith scholars I have met, none was nobler than Hushaym.’”

When Abū Ḥātim was asked about Hushaym, he replied, “His truthfulness, trustworthiness, and righteousness are beyond question.”

ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak said, “Time erodes most people’s memories, but it did not erode the memory of Hushaym.”

Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb al-ʿĀbid said, “I heard Naṣr ibn Bassām and others of our companions say: ‘We went to Maʿrūf al-Karkhī, and he told us, “I saw the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—in a dream,”’”}