Makki ibn ʿAbdān narrated: Abū al-Azhar told us, “I heard ʿAbd al-Razzāq say, ‘Maʿmar has become like a halilaj (a myrobalan lozenge) in my mouth.’” (1)

al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān said: I heard Fayyāḍ ibn Zuhayr al-Nasāʾī relate, “We sought an audience with ʿAbd al-Razzāq by appealing to his wife. When we entered, he said, ‘Very well—so you have gained access to me through the one who shares my bed?’
Then he recited:
‘The advocate who comes to you belted in cloth
is not the same as the advocate who comes to you bare.’

ʿAbbās reported: Yaḥyā told us; Bishr ibn al-Sarī said that ʿAbd al-Razzāq recounted, “I once arrived in Mecca, and the hadith scholars visited me for two days. Then they stopped coming for two—perhaps three—days, so I said, ‘My Lord, what is the matter? Am I a liar? What sort of person am I?’” Bishr added, “After that they came back to me.” (2)

al-Mufaḍḍal al-Janadī narrated: Salamah ibn Shabīb told us, “I heard ʿAbd al-Razzāq say, ‘May Allah disgrace a commodity that only becomes marketable after a man has grown old and weak. When someone reaches a hundred years of age, people start writing from him, and they will either say, “He is a liar,” thereby nullifying his knowledge, or say, “He is an innovator,” thereby nullifying his knowledge. How few escape that!’”

Maḥmūd ibn Ghaylān reported from ʿAbd al-Razzāq: Wakiʿ said to me, “You are a man who possesses hadith material, but your memory is not particularly strong. When you are asked about a hadith, do not say, ‘I do not have it,’ rather say, ‘I do not recall it.’”