Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn (1) declared him reliable.

Abū Ḥātim said, “Truthful, staunch upon the Sunnah, yet he makes many mistakes” (2).

Al-Bukhārī said, “munkar al-ḥadīth (his narrations are objectionable)” (3).

As for Abū Dāwūd, he praised him, revered him, and held him in high esteem, then added, “except that he sometimes errs in certain reports” (4).

I say: He passed away in Mecca, in the month of Ramaḍān, 206 AH.

I read to Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Fatḥ, the grammarian of Tripoli: ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Muḥammad narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn al-Khaṣīb informed us; ʿAlī ibn al-Musallam, the jurist, informed us; Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān al-Sulamī informed us; my grandfather informed us; Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Hilāl narrated to us; Muʾammal ibn Ihāb narrated to us; Muʾammal ibn Ismāʿīl narrated to us; Ḥammād ibn Salama, from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, from al-Zuhrī, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, from Maʿmar ibn ʿAbd Allāh, reported that:

The Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—said, “lā yaḥtakiru illā khāṭiʾ (Only a wrongdoer hoards commodities)” (5).