Among those who narrated from him were: Muḥammad ibn al-Mubārak aṣ-Ṣūrī, Muḥammad ibn ʿĀʾidh, Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Ibrāhīm al-Farrāʾ, Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr Zunayj, Yūsuf ibn Mūsā al-Qaṭṭān, and others.

Abū Zurʿah said: “Truthful.”

Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī related: “Muḥammad ibn Aslam al-Ṭūsī narrated to us; he said, ‘I asked Wakīʿ about Abū Zuhayr, and he replied, “He sought out ḥadith both before our time and after it.”’ (1)

ʿĪsā ibn Yūnus remarked: “Ibn Maghraʾ was a zealous seeker—meaning of knowledge.”

Ibn ʿAdī said: “He is among the weak narrators whose ḥadith is nonetheless recorded; in what he transmits from al-Aʿmash he reports things for which he finds no corroboration.”

86 – Mubashshir ibn Ismāʿīl, Abū Ismāʿīl al-Ḥalabī * (M, 4, Kh – reported conjointly)

A client of the Banū Kalb.

He narrated from: Jaʿfar ibn Burqān, Tammām ibn Najīḥ, Ḥassān ibn Nūḥ, Ḥarīz ibn ʿUthmān, al-Awzāʿī, and a number of others.

Among those who narrated from him were: Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Duḥaym, al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ al-Bazzār, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Salām al-Ṭarsūsī, and others.

Ibn Saʿd said: “He was trustworthy, reliable,” and then added: “He died in the year 200 AH.”