Yahya ibn Maʿin said, “Trustworthy. (1)”
Ibn ʿAdī remarked, “Some objectionable material is found in his narrations, yet the man himself is unobjectionable. (2)”
Al-ʿUqaylī stated, “He is upright in hadith. (3)”

Al-Abbār related to us, and al-ʿAwwām narrated, saying:
Al-Humaydī declared, “He was a Jahmi (an adherent of the Jahmiyyah); it is not lawful to record his hadith.”

I reply: On the contrary, his hadith constitutes valid evidence, and it has been authentically established that he recanted Jahmism.

He (al-ʿAwwām) also said: Al-Firyābī narrated to us, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Muqaddamī narrated to us, Sulaymān ibn Ḥarb narrated to us:
Bishr ibn al-Sarī asked Ḥammād ibn Zayd about the hadith, “Our Lord descends… (4),” saying, “Does He move from place to place?” Ḥammād fell silent, then answered, “He remains in His place, yet He draws near to His creation however He wills.”

Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said, “Bishr once spoke on a matter in Mecca, whereupon a man leapt upon him; he remained there in humiliation until he came and sat with us, subdued by what he had suffered. (5)”

Al-Thawrī found him burdensome because he had asked Sufyān about the fate of the children of the polytheists (6),