Abū Zurʿah said: “I saw Abū Mushir attend the congregational mosque in the most impeccable dress: white garments, a sāj cloak (a fine Indian fabric), and khuff (leather socks). He used to wrap a long black ʿAdani turban around a tall cap.⦗1⦘

Ibn Abī Ḥātim said: I asked my father about Abū Mushir, and he replied, “He is reliable. Of all those from whom we have collected hadith, I have not seen anyone more eloquent than he—along with Abū al-Jamahir.”⦗2⦘

Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn al-Fayḍ said: “The Sufyānī known as Abū al-ʿAmyaṭar—ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khālid ibn Yazīd ibn Muʿāwiyah, whose mother was Nafīsa bint ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib—rose in revolt⦗3⦘ in the year 195 AH.⦗4⦘ He compelled Abū Mushir to take the judgeship of Damascus; Abū Mushir later resigned when Abū al-ʿAmyaṭar was deposed.

Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf al-Ṭāʾī said: “I heard Abū Mushir relate: Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz once told me, ‘In powers of memorization I can liken you only to your grandfather Abū Dhurāmah—he never heard anything without committing it to memory.’”⦗5⦘

Abū al-Jamahir Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān said: “I have not seen anyone in greater Syria like Abū Mushir.”⦗6⦘

Al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Walīd al-Bayrūtī said: “I heard Abū Mushir declare, ‘I pursued the learning of al-Awzāʿī so earnestly that I wrote down thirteen books from Ibn Samāʿah.’”