Among those who narrated from him were his own son, the emir Ṭāhir, and al-Walīd ibn Muslim.
He left descendants in Aleppo, and he himself was deemed fit for the Caliphate.
Saʿīd ibn ʿUfayr said, “I have never seen anyone more eloquent upon this pulpit.”
He combined every form of nobility and was versed in philosophy, the playing of the ʿūd (lute), and astrology—yet, I say, ignorance would be better than such knowledge.
He had a fine gift for composing verse, and Hārūn al-Rashīd respected him greatly, even contriving to make him strum the lute for him; in return, the caliph rewarded him with jewels worth thirty thousand dinars, appointed him governor of Egypt, and personally handed him the standard. He ruled there for six years.
He lived on in Aleppo—his birthplace—until around 190 AH. He had several brothers who were governors, all of them first cousins of al-Manṣūr.

104 – Bishr ibn Manṣūr Abū Muḥammad al-Azdi* (M, D, S)
A leading imam, hadith scholar, devoted servant of God, and exemplar—Abū Muḥammad al-Azdi, al-Salīmī, al-Baṣrī, the ascetic.
He transmitted hadith from Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī, Shuʿayb ibn al-Ḥabḥāb, ʿĀṣim al-Aḥwal, Saʿīd al-Jurayrī, and their peers.
Those who reported from him include his son Ismāʿīl, Bishr al-Ḥāfī, ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī, ʿAbd al-Aʿlā ibn Ḥammād, ʿUbayd Allāh al-Qawārīrī, and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī.