; al-Ramli; Muhammad ibn ʿAwn al-Wahidi; Muhammad ibn al-Fayd al-Ghassani; Abu Bakr al-Baghindi; Muhammad ibn Waddah al-Qurtubi; Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Razin al-Himsi; Muhammad ibn Yazid ibn ʿAbd al-Samad; Muhammad ibn Yusuf ibn Bashir al-Harawi; Mahmud ibn Sumayʿ, the ḥāfiẓ; Abu ʿImran Musa ibn Sahl al-Juni; Nasr ibn Zakariyya—the resident of Bukhara; Humaym ibn Hammam al-Amuli; Wurayzah ibn Muhammad al-Ghassani; Yahya ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Saghir al-Halabi; and many others besides them.
He was declared reliable by Yahya ibn Maʿin, as reported by Muʿawiyah ibn Salih and by Ibn al-Junayd.
Abu Hatim al-Razi transmits from Yahya ibn Maʿin that he said, “Astute, astute.”
Ahmad al-ʿIjli said, “Reliable,” and on another occasion, “Truthful.”
Al-Nasaʾi remarked, “There is no harm in him.”
Al-Daraqutni said, “Truthful, of great standing.”
Abu Hatim said, “Truthful; but when he grew old he changed. Whatever was handed to him he would read, and whatever was dictated to him he would memorize. In his earlier days he was more accurate. He used to read from his own book.”
Abu Dawud said, “I heard Yahya ibn Maʿin say, ‘Hisham ibn ʿAmmar is astute.’”
Abu Dawud then added, “Sulayman, the grandson of Shurahbil—Abu Ayyub—is better than he is. Hisham narrated upward of four hundred hadith that have no sound basis; all of them are unattested. Faḍlak used to circulate the hadith of Abu Mushir and others, prompting Hisham with them, whereupon Hisham would say, ‘He narrated to me (1).’ These reports have gone into circulation, and I do not care on whom the blame for the mistake falls.”