ʿImrān ibn Bakkār al-Qaflānī said: Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq and ʿAbbās ibn Muḥammad narrated to us; they said, “We heard Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn say: One day Muʿallā ibn Manṣūr was praying when a swarm of hornets fell onto his head. He neither turned nor broke off the prayer until he had finished it. When the people looked, they found that his head had swollen like this from the severity of the stings.” (1)

al-ʿIjlī said, “Trustworthy, committed to the Sunnah, noble. He was asked to accept the judiciary more than once, but he refused.” (2)

Yaʿqūb ibn Shaybah said, “Trustworthy in what he narrates alone and what he shares with others; precise, truthful, a jurist, reliable.” (3)

Ibn Saʿd said, “He settled in Baghdad and pursued hadith. He was truthful, a man of hadith, opinion, and fiqh. Some of the hadith scholars reported from him, while others did not. He resided in al-Karkh.” (4)

Abū Ḥātim said, “He was truthful in hadith and a man of opinion.” (5)

Aḥmad ibn Kāmil the judge said, “Muʿallā was among the senior companions of Abū Yūsuf and Muḥammad and one of their reliable transmitters in conveying and narrating.” (6)

Abū Aḥmad ibn ʿAdī said, “I hope there is nothing wrong with him, for I have not found any hadith of his to be objectionable.” (7)