Shuʿbah—glancing at ʿAbd al-Wārith as the latter turned to leave—said, “You can tell how exacting he is even from the back of his head.”

Harb transmitted from Aḥmad who declared, “Of all those who narrated from Ḥusayn al-Muʿallim, ʿAbd al-Wārith’s reports are the soundest.”

Muʿāwiyah ibn Ṣāliḥ recounted: “I asked Ibn Maʿīn, ‘Who is the most reliable of the Basran teachers?’ He replied, ‘ʿAbd al-Wārith,’ and then named several others.”

ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd relates from Ibn Maʿīn that he said, “In his transmissions from Ayyūb he is the peer of Ḥammād ibn Zayd.”

Al-Bukhārī recorded that ʿAbd al-Ṣamad said, “It is a lie attributed to my father; I never heard it from him at all”—referring to the question of predestination.

Abū Zurʿah said, “Reliable.”

Al-Nasāʾī said, “Trustworthy, firmly established.”

Ibn Saʿd said, “Reliable, an authoritative proof.”

He passed away in Muḥarram of the year 180 AH.

81 – Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd ibn Ibrāhīm al-Qurashī al-Zuhrī * (ʿ) (1),
grandson of the Companion of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf,
the Imām,