ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad said: I asked my father, “Did ʿAbd al-Razzāq go to extremes in Shiʿite leanings?”
He replied, “For my part I never heard anything of that from him, but he was a man who took delight in people’s stories—or in stories generally.” (1)

Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb ibn al-Ḍurays said: I questioned Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Muqaddamī about a narration from Jaʿfar ibn Sulaymān and asked, “Did ʿAbd al-Razzāq relate it from him?”
He answered, “I have written off ʿAbd al-Razzāq; no one spoiled Jaʿfar except him—meaning, in matters of Shiʿism.” (2)

I say: On the contrary, no one corrupted ʿAbd al-Razzāq except Jaʿfar ibn Sulaymān.

Abū Jaʿfar al-ʿUqaylī said: Aḥmad ibn Bukayr al-Ḥaḍramī narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Yazīd al-Baṣrī narrated to us; I heard Makhlad al-Shaʿīrī say,
“I was in ʿAbd al-Razzāq’s company when a man mentioned Muʿāwiyah. ʿAbd al-Razzāq retorted, ‘Do not pollute our gathering by mentioning the son of Abū Sufyān!’ (3)”

ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad said: I asked Ibn Maʿīn, “Do you think old age impaired ʿAbd al-Razzāq?”
He replied, “When we last saw him he had not yet reached eighty—he was somewhere in his seventies.”

Yahya then said: Abū Jaʿfar al-Suwaydī mentioned that a group of Khorasanis—students of hadith—came to ʿAbd al-Razzāq with reports traced back to the judge Hishām ibn Yūsuf. They had gathered them from Maʿmar, from the narrations of Hishām and Ibn Thawr— and Ibn Thawr was reliable. They presented the collection to ʿAbd al-Razzāq; after examining it he said, “Some of these I have heard, while others I do not recognize and have never heard.” He added, “So he did not—”