as well as al-Qāsim, Abū ʿUmar Ṣāliḥ ibn Isḥāq al-Jarmī, Abū Ḥātim al-Sijistānī, Abū ʿUthmān al-Māzinī, ʿUmar ibn Shabbah, Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī, al-ʿAbbās al-Riyāshī, Abū al-ʿAynāʾ, al-Kudaymī, Abū Muslim al-Kajjī, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-Mundhir al-Qazzāz, and many others.

Ibn Abī Ḥātim said, “I heard my father express an unqualified commendation of him, exalt his stature, and say, ‘He is truthful.’ (1)

Ṣāliḥ Jazrah likewise declared, ‘Reliable.’

I say: his remote forefather, Abū Zayd, was one of those who compiled the Quran during the lifetime of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ; his name was Thābit ibn Zayd ibn Qays al-Khazrajī. (2)

Abū ʿUthmān al-Māzinī related: “We were with Abū Zayd when al-Asmaʿī arrived, bent down and kissed his head, then sat and said, ‘This has been our scholar and our teacher for thirty years.’

While we were still sitting there, Khalaf al-Aḥmar came in, bent down and kissed his head, and said, ‘This has been our scholar and our teacher for twenty years.’ (3)

Al-Māzinī also said: I heard Abū Zayd recount:

‘I stopped at a butcher and asked, “How much for al-baṭnān (the pair of belly cuts)?” He replied, “For two miṣfaʿān, O maḍraṭān!” So I pulled my cloak over my head and fled. (4)’

Al-Sīrāfī reported that Abū Zayd used to say: “Everything that Sībawayh has stated—”