He says:
I said to Hisham ibn ‘Ammar, “Here in Antioch we have someone who relates to us from al-Walid ibn Muslim on your authority.” He replied, “Al-Walid narrated from me—as did someone even more distinguished than he: Ibn Shabur.”

Abu ‘Ali ibn Shadhan heard this remark from al-Naqqash.

Hashim ibn Marthad said: I heard Ibn Ma‘in say, “Muhammad ibn Shu‘ayb was a Murjiʾ, yet there is no fault in his hadith.”

Ahmad al-‘Ijli said, “Trustworthy.”

Abu Hatim stated, “He is more reliable than Muhammad ibn Himyar, than Baqiyyah, and than Muhammad ibn Harb.” (1)

I add: He was an imam and an earnest seeker of knowledge.

123 – al-Tayalisi, Sulayman ibn Dawud ibn al-Jarud * (M, 4)
The great hafiz, author of the Musnad; Abu Dawud the Persian, then al-Asadi, then al-Zubayri—the client of the household of al-Zubayr ibn al-‘Awwam—hafiz of Basra.

‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad, together with a group, related to us; they had heard it from ‘Umar ibn Muhammad,