Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal was asked about him and replied, “He is truthful; he used to sit with us to hear the ḥadith and actively pursue it.” (1)
Abū Dāwūd said, “He is trustworthy.” (2)
Others asserted that he had a Shiʿite inclination.
Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ayyūb al-Mukharrimī recounted, “Whenever he came to Baghdad he stayed with my father. When the Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him—was mentioned, he might remain silent, but when ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib was mentioned, he would say, ‘peace and blessings be upon him.’” (3)
I say: He died in the year 230 AH.
In that same year the following also passed away: ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd, Muḥammad ibn Saʿd, Aḥmad ibn Jamīl, Aḥmad ibn Janāb, Ibrāhīm ibn Isḥāq al-Sīnī, Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥamzah, Isḥāq ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ṭalqānī, Ismāʿīl ibn Saʿīd al-Shālanjī the jurist, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿĪsā al-ʿAṭṭār, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Samīnah, Saʿīd ibn ʿAmr al-Ashʿathī, the governor of Khurāsān ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṭāhir al-Khuzaʿī, ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Burjumī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Yaḥyā al-Madanī, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭanafisī, ʿAwn ibn Salām al-Kūfī, Abū Ghassān Mālik al-Mismaʿī, Maḥbūb ibn Mūsā al-Anṭākī, Mahdī ibn Jaʿfar al-Ramli, ʿAtīq ibn Yaʿqūb al-Zubayrī, Isḥāq ibn ʿUmar ibn Salīṭ al-Baṣrī, and al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥakam al-Quṭrubullī. (4)