Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad Jazrah said, “Bishr ibn al-Walīd is truthful, yet he is no longer of sound mind; he had become senile.” (1)

Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī said, “I asked Abū al-Ḥasan al-Dāraqutnī about Bishr ibn al-Walīd, and he replied, ‘Reliable.’” (2)

Others added, “Bishr was harsh in his legal rulings, though upright. When questions arose in Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah’s gathering he would say, ‘Ask Bishr ibn al-Walīd.’” (3)

Bishr died in Dhū al-Qaʿdah of the year 238 AH.

ʿAbd al-Ḥāfiẓ ibn Badrān and Yūsuf ibn Aḥmad narrated to us; they said: Mūsā ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir narrated to us; Saʿīd ibn al-Bannāʾ narrated to us; Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Buṣrī narrated to us; Abū Ṭāhir al-Dhahabī narrated to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad narrated to us; Bishr ibn al-Walīd narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Ṭalḥah—through Ibn Shubruma, from Abū Zurʿah, from Abū Hurayrah—reported that

a man asked the Prophet ﷺ, “Who among people is most entitled to my good companionship?” He answered, “Your mother.” The man asked, “Then who?” He replied, “Then your mother.” He asked again, “Then who?” He said, “Then your mother.” He asked, “Then who?” He said, “Then your father.”

Muslim recorded the ḥadīth, and both al-Bukhārī and Muslim agreed upon its authenticity (4) via the isnād of ʿUmārah ibn al-Qaʿqāʿ from Abū Zurʿah.

In that same year there also died Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Muʿādh, and Muḥammad