Thereupon he said, “Take it down: Abu Ismaʿil Hammad ibn Zayd has related to us,” and he did not transmit a single word except on the authority of Hammad. (1)

Abu al-ʿAbbās ibn Masrūq said: Ibn Ḥumayd narrated to us:

A man sneezed in the presence of Ibn al-Mubārak, so Ibn al-Mubārak asked him, “What should a person say when he sneezes?” He answered, “Praise belongs to Allah.” Ibn al-Mubārak replied, “May Allah have mercy on you.” (2)

Aḥmad al-ʿIjli said: “Ibn al-Mubārak is trustworthy, firmly established in hadith, a righteous man, a poet, and a comprehensive scholar.”

Al-ʿAbbās ibn Muṣʿab said: “ʿAbd Allah combined mastery of hadith, jurisprudence, Arabic language, the chronicles of people, courage, generosity, commerce, and the love of every group.”

Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Farrāʾ said: “Khurāsān has produced no one like these three: Ibn al-Mubārak, al-Naḍr ibn Shumayl, and Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā.”

ʿUthmān al-Dārimī said: I heard Nuʿaym ibn Ḥammād say—I heard Yaḥyā ibn Ādam say:

“Whenever I sought the finer, more delicate issues and did not find them in the books of Ibn al-Mubārak, I despaired of finding them elsewhere.”